(21) MG Rose Birthplace Dedication - 2002 from key bud photos video Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4 min 56 sec
✓ Published: 11-May-2009

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On September 29, 2002, and fifty-seven years after his death in World War II, the birthplace of one of America's greatest combat generals, Maurice Rose, was dedicated for the first time. He was born to Polish immigrant parents on November 26, 1899, in the bustling river town and then inland shipping port of Middletown, Connecticut. While the town of birth had been long known by historians, the exact location was not discovered until May, 2002. The full story of that finding and the subsequent de