Lucille Hoback Boggess was 15 that July, when her parents received two telegrams, a day apart, telling them that their sons, Bedford and Raymond Hoback were dead. She recalls watching her father walk, heartbroken, to a barn where he could hide his tears and grieve alone. Every evening that summer felt like a wake.
Boggess was very close to her mother, "Anything that hurt her, hurt me. I felt helpless. Bedford Hoback's body was identified. He is one of more than 9,000 interred at the American cemetery at Coleville-sur-Mer in France.
Raymond's corpse was never found. He may have washed out to sea. His name is inscribed with about 1,500 others on a wall of the missing, near where her brother lies.
--GreGen
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