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Johnson T. Keiper, the son of Johnson and Anna Keiper, was born in 1920, in Pennsylvania. It's unclear why Johnson was in Schenectady by 1941. Johnson joined the United States Army on February 16, 1942. He was a Technician Fifth Grade with the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. Johnson died on January 2, 1945, as a result of wounds sustained during the Battle of the Bulge. He is buried in the Henri Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial, Belgium.

Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry


 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

 

For the Fallen

Laurence Binyon