G.I.'s Remains From World War II Comes Home

By MEREDITH RODRIGUEZ
The Kansas City Star

On Wednesday, the Patriot Guard will escort Pvt. Henry “Rickey” E. Marquez’s ashes from Kansas City International Airport to his final resting place in Kansas City, Kan.

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On Nov. 4, 1944, his Army regiment — the 112th Infantry of the 28th Division — was pushing east through the Huertgen Forest toward the German towns of Vossenack and Schmidt. Marquez had been fighting only a few months in Company G when machine-gun fire killed him in a foxhole with Pfc. Julian H. Rogers of

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Pvt. Henry “Rickey” E. Marquez, Kansas City Kansas was and is a true American hero.
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The Battle of the Huertgen Forest

Those who fought in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest fought a misconceived and basically fruitless battle that could have, and should have been avoided. That is the real tragedy of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest. >snip< More than 24,000 Americans were killed, missing, captured and wounded. Another 9,000 succumbed to the misery of trench foot, respiratory diseases and combat fatigue. In addition, some 80,000 Germans fought in this battle and an estimated 28,000 of them became casualties.