Mount Mora Cemetery wouldn’t seem to be where one would expect to find the U.S. Marine Corps. But it is a place where young recruits found one of their own.
“The original plan for the men was to do a car wash on Saturday to raise funds for next month’s poolee event,” said Staff Sgt. Gerardo Banda, one of the recruiters attached to the St. Joseph office.
A father of a young recruit asked if the Marines could help get the cemetery, which is a National Register of Historic Places site, ready for Memorial Day. The recruiting substation in St. Joseph has 27 recruits waiting for orders to go to boot camp.