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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec 17h17 hours agoAugust 1918 - British and American troops in Arkangelsk, northern Russia #100yearsagohttps://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1033926085669515266
In Russia, Scant Traces And Negative Memories Of A Century-Old U.S. InterventionMay 28, 2018Lucian KimA simple tombstone marks the grave of the lone American buried in the vast Naval Cemetery in Vladivostok overlooking Russia's Pacific coast.The words "Secretary H. B. Emmez, American YMCA" are carved in English above a cross into the granite slab. There are no dates, epitaphs or other inscriptions.Emmez is one of the Americans who didn't come home from a U.S. military intervention that began in 1918. He died of typhus while part of a YMCA group that entertained and ministered to American troops sent to protect military stocks in the violent aftermath of the Russian Revolution. The bodies of U.S. servicemen who died during the mission were later repatriated.Read more at: http://www.wbur.org/npr/608455970/in-russia-scant-traces-and-negative-memories-of-a-century-old-u-s-intervention
