title: The Foreign Burial of American War Dead: A History
author:  Chris Dickon 
description: "This work compiles names and locations of Americans who died in wars on foreign soil who are buried in locations which are outside of the system of the American Battle Monument Commission...the book traces the evolution of American attitudes and practices regarding its war dead"--<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>; "Dickon has been painstakingly counting, cataloging and mapping the locations of American war dead buried outside formal memorial cemeteries"--<i>PBS Newshour</i>.
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  ## America the Dead
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( White flag of the dead - 3 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Joseph Talluto
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Joseph Talluto
  
  
  
  
  
  ## America the Dead
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I used to enjoy spring. The warm days, the cool nights; it was a great time to
  think about all the things you wanted to do outside, and all the things you
  should have gotten done over the winter but didn’t want to because it was too
  cold.
  
  
  That was the spring of the past. Spring these days meant the dead were shaking
  off the rigidity of the cold weather and headed out hungrier than ever. Being
  dead, they were not bound by the same rules regarding the human body. They
  never tired, didn’t feel pain, and existed to feed and spread the infection
  that caused them to exist in the first place.
  
  
  Such was my world, two years after the Upheaval, the name we called the end of
  our world when the dead rose and devoured the living. Some of us managed to
  survive