This is placed on June 6th 2008, to honor all who served during D-Day June 6, 1945, but one in particular:![]()
Jerome Kostka, a rifleman with the 29th Infantry Division's D-Day assault on Omaha Beach 60 years ago, died nine years ago and was buried at Delafield Cemetery.
But today, his family - now totaling 20( edit 3-3-10 - now 21!) members - will gather at a restaurant as they did when he was alive, as they've done for about 30 years now. Their traditional D-Day dinner was started to honor the valor of their patriarch and others like him. - curtesy in part by Laurel Walker
In case you have not figured it out, we named Jerry, our oldest son, after him! Please stop and pay your respects as Jerome is resting to the right of the cache as you walk up. Also please visit the related webpage for further information on his experiences during and after the war, it is a newspaper article written in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Cache is not on any graves.
Wisconsin cache owners are joining in as of 2007, with the designation WSQ prefixing their cache names. As elsewhere, this is a voluntary effort to help designate and highlight these special areas.
Please be respectful of the area, and observe their rules and posted hours which are typically sunrise to sunset. As this is classified as a cemetery cache please note it is NOT hidden on any grave marker or site. If there is a service going on, or folks are visiting their loved ones when you arrive please be respectful and come back at a later time.