A local Chinese official reading a prepared speech during the memorial services.
Fireworks being set-off as a symbolic gesture during the memorial servives.
The villagers prepared a deeper grave site and a picture of Captain Krippner and an engraved stone were buried and then the mound was rebuilt back to a recognizable grave mound
The engraved stone being held by nephew Steffan commerating his great uncle's sacrifice on August 27th, 1943
Ginni,Steffan and husband Pete during the memorial services.
Ginni Krippner holding a photo of the late Captain Howard Krippner
