Gold Star Boys and the “Blue Bonnet”
The Gold Star Boys 402 W Washington Street Cuba, MO 65453 The Gold Star Mural just off Route 66 [...]
The Gold Star Boys 402 W Washington Street Cuba, MO 65453 The Gold Star Mural just off Route 66 [...]
The Gold Star Boys mural was painted right after 9/11/2001. It pictures the faces of six young men from the Cuba Area who fought in WWII and did not return to their families. But then we found out that there was more to the story. Ralph Fishwick lost his life in the line of duty on a return convoy off the coast of Africa on December 2, 1942. We thought. Read on for the rest of the story.
Trains have always been important to Cuba, Missouri history as the old scrapbook pages above show. The town was founded and platted [...]
A scene from Cuba during the Memorial Day weekend: The faces of the young men in the window of the train are the faces [...]