McAvennie
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A lot of people making fuss about Pokemon Stops or Gyms being at memorials, today - after I won the Memorial R Kelly Gym - I Googled the story of Sgt Lawrence R Kelly.
He was a WWI veteran who had vowed to be the first American in liberated Paris but was shot by a Frenchman as he drove his jeep across the Pont Saint Cloud after he had been mistaken for a German.
Had it not been for Pokemon GO I may never have heard his story and his memorial would have been another plaque on a wall ignored by nearly all passers by.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KidYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=972,649195
https://doyle.com/auctions/14bp04-r...41-world-war-ii-we-remember-important-tribute
He was a WWI veteran who had vowed to be the first American in liberated Paris but was shot by a Frenchman as he drove his jeep across the Pont Saint Cloud after he had been mistaken for a German.
Had it not been for Pokemon GO I may never have heard his story and his memorial would have been another plaque on a wall ignored by nearly all passers by.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KidYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DvcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=972,649195
https://doyle.com/auctions/14bp04-r...41-world-war-ii-we-remember-important-tribute
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