Honoring forgotten veterans: Fort Vancouver’s DAR chapter works to document, memorialize veterans who vanished

BRUSH PRAIRIE — A new, gleaming, granite military headstone marks the spot where the remains of one forgotten American veteran had nearly vanished into the underbrush — and perhaps into total obscurity forever.

Janet Critchfield is not related to U.S. Army Pvt. Harold J. Marsh, who died in 1938, but after a solemn July ceremony with honor guard, she proudly accepted a folded-up flag in Marsh’s honor. Tags Clark County Clark County History Hazel Dell & Minnehaha Lifestyles Orchards Sifton & Brush Prairie Veterans