joseph crowfoot lost his life in the revolutionary war and john murphy is the first irish-american casualty on the wall in the revolutionary war. as irish immigrants continued to flood boston, relatively few of them made it as far west as williams town but by world war ii a couple of o donnells went off to war from williams town never to return. the wall shows that the burden of war, american war, is not equally shared never has been. military service tends to run in families, as it does in the mccain family. john mccain s father went to annapolis before him and was serving as an admiral when john mccain was a navy pilot. john mccain s grandfather was also an annapolis graduate who served as an admiral in world war ii. and so it is in williams town
anglo-saxon names. there are a few rare exceptions. joseph crowfoot lost his life in the revolutionary war, and john murphy is the first irish-american casualty on the wall in the revolutionary war. as irish immigrants continued to flood boston, relatively few of them made it as far west as williams town, but by world war ii, a couple of o donnells went off to war from williams town never to return. the wall shows that the burden of war, american war, is not equally shared, never has been. military service tends to run in families, as it does in the mccain family. john mccain s father went to annapolis before him and was serving as an admiral when john mccain was a navy pilot. john mccain s grandfather was also an annapolis graduate who served as an admiral in world war ii.