Georgia WWII hero's grave inspires songwriter ballad decades after soldier killed in combat
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Songwriter Craig Gleason wrote "The Ballad of Ervin O. Jones" after finding a World War II hero's grave seven decades after soldier was killed in the Battle of Okinawa.
"American patriots and war heroes, much like songs, grow from the most humble circumstances." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
Craig Gleason, a Georgia songwriter, penned "The Ballad of Ervin O. Jones" in 2014, after he and his daughter came across the soldier's headstone in a churchyard cemetery in the city of Alpharetta.
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