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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: Eagle Project Researches Burials At Military Prison Cemetery .. A Few Folk Can Make a Difference
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 14:09:16 -0700

A piece of Fort Leavenworth's history received a facelift and a new feature
thanks to an Eagle Scout community service project by a local Boy Scout from
Troop 66.

Joshua Meeks, a junior at Leavenworth High School, led a group of eight
Scouts and six adults to the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks Military Prison
Cemetery May 28 on a mission to beautify and restore the graveyard's image
and erect an informational kiosk about the prisoners interred there.

"We raked up the grass, trimmed the trees and cleaned the headstones," said
Meeks, whose project took about 165 total man-hours to complete. "We also
installed an informational kiosk where we put information about some of the
prisoners as well as the layout of the cemetery."

The kiosk displays a list of the 240 prisoners buried at the cemetery in
addition to each inmate's location in the yard. Also on display is a booklet
containing research about some of the inmates.

Meeks and his father, Maj. Jeff Meeks, chief of operations at Executive
Services, conducted the research as part of the project, much of it dealing
with the 14 German prisoners of war who were executed between July 10 and
Aug. 25, 1945, and were buried at the cemetery.

The service project marks one of the final steps for Joshua Meeks to earn
his Eagle Badge, the highest rank for a Boy Scout.

Sally
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