Connecting the dots; Researchers documenting veterans buried in GSMNP
(World News USA)

The birth and death dates etched in headstones do tell a story, but it`s the in-between material that has always fascinated people like Joe Emert. So when he was approached about researching the veterans buried in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he was all in. He and others like Don Casada are now part of a group of detectives whose mission is to provide a database of all veterans buried in GSMNP. As of July 3, they had identified 163 who spanned the Revolutionary War to Vietnam, and including both sides of the Civil War. This massive and ongoing project includes both Tennessee and North Carolina. The research has been posted on the web. The list of Blount County veterans stands at 35....