Creator and historian Kevin Callahan, proper, introduced a medal to honor the sacrifices made by the Trimmer brothers throughout World Struggle II and the Korean Struggle and by their mom Anna Trimmer White to White’s granddaughter Karen Griggy, left, throughout a particular presentation which shared their tales on the Memorial Constructing Thursday. (Picture by Morgan Ahart)
The presentation noticed creator and historian Kevin Callahan spotlight the tales of Salem natives Earl and Stanton Trimmer who have been killed in battle in September 1944, and their mom Anna Trimmer White. Callahan additionally introduced a medal to honor the household’s sacrifice to Karen Griggy, the granddaughter of White, and Earl and Stanton’s niece.
Earl and Stanton are buried side-by-side on the Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in Saint-James Normandy, France. Whereas it was frequent for brothers preventing in World Struggle II to be deployed removed from each other, Earl and Stanton have been killed solely 9 days and 50 miles aside. Once they have been later buried, quite than having their our bodies repatriated and buried in the USA without charge to the household, White opted to as a substitute have them buried abroad, believing that “the cash the federal government would spend sending her sons again could possibly be higher spent on different wants.”
“Stanton served within the 202nd Engineer Fight Battalion constructing pontoon bridges throughout rivers and breaching fortified traces within the [Allied Forces] march towards Germany. Earl, the youngest Trimmer brother, served within the 157th Infantry Regiment’s forty fifth Infantry Division first in Italy and later in Southern France,” mentioned Callahan.
Born to English immigrants in East Liverpool in 1889, Callahan mentioned that White’s “household described her with one phrase — sturdy.” White married Charles Trimmer, a coal miner from Pennsylvania who was 15 years her senior, and with whom she had had 5 sons earlier than he was confined to a sanitarium. After her marriage to Charles ended, she would marry Carl White, a truck driver from South Carolina with whom she had an additional three kids — one other son and two daughters.
Through the presentation Callahan learn a range from his e-book “Brothers in Arms,” which chronicles the tales of the greater than 700 units of American brothers who fought and died throughout World Struggle II, that tells the tales of the Trimmer brothers’ service and its lasting impression on themselves and their household. (Picture by Morgan Ahart)
“Through the Thirties they moved throughout Ohio. Their home in Kent burned down, and after shifting to Berlin, Ohio Carl hit the highway, this time for good. Within the coronary heart of the good melancholy Anna Trimmer White was left alone with eight kids. She ended up in Salem, Ohio,” mentioned Callahan.
Callahan mentioned that White lived in Salem till she “was almost 98 years previous… adored her African violets and loved crocheting, knitting and quilting,” and sometimes hosted boarders. Callahan additionally mentioned that when she was requested by an area newspaper about dropping three sons in two wars White mentioned that “naturally, I really feel deeply that they’re gone, but when the sacrifice they’ve made will preserve liberty alive, not solely on this nation, however in the remainder of the world as nicely, their lives weren’t wasted.”
Whereas Earl and Stanton made the last word sacrifice, their brothers Charles, William, and Paul additionally served in World Struggle II, and White’s son with Carl, Carl White Jr., who enlisted within the Military after graduating from highschool, was killed in motion throughout the Korean Struggle in 1950. Callahan mentioned that “as a result of abroad burial was not an possibility throughout the Korean Struggle, Carl Jr. was returned dwelling and buried in Arlington Nationwide Cemetery.”
“All 5 Trimmer boys served in World Struggle II. Charles, the oldest, was a marine; William served within the military; Paul served within the service provider marines and was a part of the fleet supporting the besieged troops on Guadalcanal,” mentioned Callahan.
Callahan’s e-book “Brothers in Arms” chronicles the tales of the greater than 700 units of American brothers who fought and died throughout World Struggle II and have been subsequently buried side-by-side in considered one of 12 American navy cemeteries throughout Europe. He mentioned that he was impressed to inform the story of these brothers by a 2019 go to to the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Nettuno Italy along with his sons, when he noticed a pair of grave markers with the final identify side-by-side, which he discovered have been a pair of brothers from Iowa.
