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Lyle Reab s remains were interred in the family plot relocated from an unknown soldier grave in Ardennes American Cemetery at Neupré, Belgium and placed alongside those of his parents, Willis Harry and Daisy, in the cemetery. ....
Steve Liewer Omaha World-Herald Harry and Daisy Reab must have felt grateful as they prepared Thanksgiving Day dinner at their home in rural Giltner, Nebraska, back in 1944. True, their son and only child, Pvt. Lyle Reab, was far from home, serving with the First Army in Europe during World War II. But he had been blessed to take part in the joyous liberation of Paris a few weeks earlier â and Adolf Hitlerâs armies, though stubborn, had been yielding ground to the Allies on the western and eastern fronts. Then came the telegram. Arriving on Thanksgiving afternoon, it told the Reabs that Lyle had gone missing two weeks earlier on Nov. 9, the day before his 23rd birthday. He had disappeared in fighting near Vossenack, Germany, in the battle of Hürtgen Forest. ....