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Local historian and author sheds light on some of the over 2,000 service men and women laid to rest at historic burial ground in Battle Creek

Two Medal of Honor recipients among service members remembered at Oak Hill Cemetery Nick Buckley, Battle Creek Enquirer © Courtesy of Oak Hill U.S. military veterans gather for a Memorial Day service at Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek on May 30, 1921. Hundreds of veterans and service members, some in business attire and others in uniform, posed for a portrait as they came to pay their respects at Oak Hill Cemetery. It was May 30, 1921 or "Decoration Day" — at the time a Michigan state holiday —when the graves of fallen soldiers who died in the line of duty would b...