Friday Daily Delawhere [6.8.12]

Filed in Delaware by on June 8, 2012

What is this, where is this, and what is done to this book everyday?

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  1. Zafo Jones says:
    June 8, 2012 at 8:01 am

    It’s the Book of the Dead, containing the names of the Delawareans who died in the First World War. It is located in Memorial Hall (built 1924, dedicated 1925) at the University of Delaware in Newark. A page is turned every day, displaying two different names.

    I was a Blue Hen Ambassador, so I’ll be ashamed if this is wrong.

  2. Delaware Dem says:
    June 8, 2012 at 8:25 am

    You are correct.

  3. Andy says:
    June 8, 2012 at 11:59 am

    Learn something new everyday. Do they have ones for other Wars that this country has been involved in?

  4. Dorian Gray says:
    June 8, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    There’s a monument in that little park at Academy and Main Sts. that includes the UD dead from WWI, WWII, Korea (one poor guy called John E Walker) and Vietnam…

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