Honor veterans, past and present

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After 168 years, Vermilion County native James Thompson will receive the recognition he deserved for his service — and ultimate sacrifice — in the U.S. Army during the war with Mexico. He died and was buried in 1847 a mass grave in Tampico, Mexico.

The details of his life were discovered by his great-great-granddaughter, Barbara Thompson Switzer of Cayuga, Ind. She organized a ceremony for 2 p.m. today at the Danville National Cemetery adjacent to the Department of Veterans Affairs Illinois Health Care System on East Main Street to honor her relative. The ceremony will be in the cemetery's Soldier's Circle and is open to the public.

"People who want to remember an American soldier who never got his military service," are invited," Thompson Switzer told the Commercial-News earlier this month.