But the headstone reads “Siapan Island.”
“Ketner died in a place so remote, so exotic, so removed from America that someone in the chain of events used an alternate spelling of it. It was this tick of spelling that drew me to the grave,” Nelson said of his first visit to the Pine Hill Cemetery when he first moved to the area. “I thought then and now how fate snatches Americans like Ketner to die in very foreign places, places we can hardly say or spell, for ideals not at all foreign to those who believe in democracy.”
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