“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
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The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of small, rural, historic
cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers in central/Northeast
Indiana. PRAIRIEPARTNERS has set a record for
one-day ISQ finds on 10-16-2004 at 55! ISQ Stats at waypoint:
GCKVCR.
Look right below the split, to the right of the fallen stone--do
you see the ghost image of a Ghost Kitty walking toward
you?
OOPS!!
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#67
”SANDS OF IWO JIMA!"
Hey! Go to Lakeview Cemetery (Estab. 1860)
in Silver Lake, Indiana. The old part of the cemetery has stones
dating to the 1850's. Some of the Civil War vets interred here
include: Witener Price, Co. E, 26th OH, 1818-1890; J.J. Nowles, Co.
B, 88 IND INF; W.O. Herrendeen , Co. I, 12th IND INF. One of them
will lead you to the cache. Be sure to check out the big old tree
split in half by lightening.
The Marine Corps War
Memorial stands as a symbol of this grateful Nation's esteem for
the honored dead of the U.S. Marine Corps. While the statue depicts
one of the most famous incidents of World War II, the memorial is
dedicated to all Marines who have given their lives in the defense
of the United States since 1775.
The small island of
Iwo Jima lies 660 miles south of Tokyo. One of its outstanding
geographical features is Mount Suribachi, an extinct volcano that
forms the narrow southern tip of the island and rises 550 feet to
dominate the area. By February 1945, U.S. troops had recaptured
most of the territory taken by the Japanese in 1941 and 1942; still
uncaptured was Iwo Jima, which became a primary objective in
American plans to bring the Pacific campaign to a successful
conclusion.
On the morning of
February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions invaded Iwo
Jima after a somewhat ineffective bombardment lasting 72 hours. The
28th Regiment, 5th Division, was ordered to capture Mount
Suribachi. They reached the base of the mountain on the afternoon
of February 21, and by nightfall the next day had almost completely
surrounded it. On the morning of February 23, Marines of Company E,
2nd Battalion, started the tortuous climb up the rough terrain to
the top. At about 10:30 a.m., men all over the island were thrilled
by the sight of a small American flag flying from atop Mount
Suribachi. That afternoon, when the slopes were clear of enemy
resistance, a second, larger flag was raised by five Marines and a
Navy hospital corpsman: Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon H. Block,
Pfc. Franklin R. Sousley, Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes, and
PhM. 2/c John H. Bradley, USN.
News-photographer Joe
Rosenthal caught the afternoon flag raising in an inspiring
Pulitzer Prize winning photograph. When the picture was later
released, sculptor Felix W. de Weldon, then on duty with the U.S.
Navy, was so moved by the scene that he constructed a scale model
and then a life-size model of it. Gagnon, Hayes, and Bradley, the
three survivors of the flag raising (the others having been killed
in later phases of the Iwo Jima battle), posed for the sculptor who
modeled their faces in clay. All available pictures and physical
statistics of the three who had given their lives were collected
and then used in the modeling of their
faces...
The cache container
is a small pill bottle. ADDITONAL HINT IS A SPOILER. BYOP. Park
with care.. As always, please be respectful, and cache in,
trash out.
"Death is the Black Camel
that kneels unbid at every gate." --Old Eastern Saying quoted by
Charlie Chan in The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
(1929)
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