expressed to the Chicago Tribune that the story harbored over the years by his family has been particularly painful. Rufus, though, was pleased that it was being told—the remembrance was momentous. "It was a beautiful thing to bring everything out, especially with the way things are going [in America] at this particular time", said Rufus. "My uncles were burned up, burned alive in a field because they fought back. A lot of people lost their lives for fighting back. It's important for the younger generation to understand that". Paris has been the site of 12 documented lynchings since 1892. The Arthur brothers were the last. National memorial The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama, on April 26, 2018, in a setting of . Featured among other things, is a sculpture by Kwame Akoto-Bamfo of a mother with a chain around her neck and an infant in her arms. On a hill overlooking the sculpture is the Memorial Corridor which displays 805 hanging steel rectangles, each representing the counties in the United States where a documented lynching took place and, for each county, the names of those lynched. For Lamar County, Irving and Herman Arthur are memorialized as lynching victims. Herman Arthur's service in the U.S. Armed Forces During World War I, Herman Arthur enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was inducted April 29, 1918, at Mount Pleasant, Texas, and trained for a little over a month with the Company, Battalion, Depot Brigade at Camp Travis—a World War I training camp in San Antonio that existed from 1917 to 1924, then was absorbed by Fort Sam Houston. (see Camp Travis photos at Wikimedia Commons) On July 14, 1918, Arthur was transferred to the Army Corps of Engineers and attached to Company A (about 224 men), Engineers Service Battalion an all-African American unit that mobilized at Camp Travis. The was one of 53 Engineers Service Battalions (Nos. 505 thru 567, with some gaps) composed entirely of African Americans. Each Battalion had about 1008 men. On July 15, the Engineers Service Battalion—(i) Field and Staff, (ii) Headquarters Detachment, (iii) Medical Detachment, and (iv) Companies A thru D; 878 total personnel—departed from the Army's Hoboken Port of Embarkation aboard the USS Great Northern to Brest, France, to serve on the Western Front of the European theatre as part of the American Expeditionary Forces. The Battalion's mission was: "Service of supply,