Offutt Air Force Base is named after

First Lieutenant Jarvis Jenness Offutt,

U.S. Army, killed in action, Valheureux, France, 13 AUG 1918.

He received training from the Royal Canadian Flying Corps, just

one month after the U.S. entered the war in April 1917; attached

to the 56th Squadron, British Royal Air Force, when killed.

Offutt grew up in Omaha's Joslyn Castle neighborhood, where his

father’s magnificent late 19th Century brick and slate home stands.

Offutt Air Force Base,

and the 56th Squadron British Royal Air Force,

continue to honor First Lieutenant Offutt.

He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Omaha, Nebraska

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I Have a Rendezvous with Death

By ALAN SEEGER

I have a rendezvous with Death

At some disputed barricade,

When Spring comes back with rustling shade

And apple-blossoms fill the air—

I have a rendezvous with Death

When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand

And lead me into his dark land

And close my eyes and quench my breath—

It may be I shall pass him still.

I have a rendezvous with Death

On some scarred slope of battered hill,

When Spring comes round again this year

And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep

Pillowed in silk and scented down,

Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,

Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,

Where hushed awakenings are dear ...

But I've a rendezvous with Death

At midnight in some flaming town,

When Spring trips north again this year,

And I to my pledged word am true,

I shall not fail that rendezvous.
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Alan Seeger, an American who fought for
the French Foreign Legion, was killed on
04 JUL 1916, during Battle of the Somme.

The American Volunteer Monument in
Paris is in Memory of American Volunteers
Fallen for France during WWI.


American Volunteer Monument

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The Restored Burlington Northern Depot 
        & WWII Memorial Museum
depothill.net
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