During a recent trip to France, students from Chaminade High School paid tribute to John J. McDonald, a graduate who died heroically after the D-Day invasion. Only a week before their trip, the school discovered that McDonald, an Army Air Corps lieutenant, was buried in a cemetery there. The school's president expressed surprise at this connection. Students prayed for nearly an hour at his grave, reflecting on the loneliness he faced far from home, making a poignant connection to his story and their own lives.
The Chaminade High School students prayed for hours at the gravesite of alum John J. McDonald, who heroically died after the D-Day invasion.
We never even thought that one of our alumni was buried over in France," said Chaminade president Brother Thomas Cleary.
It really set in. This man, he's buried here - alone in a foreign country without his family," said junior Andrew Kerr.
You hear about it and you feel like it's so distant from you," Kerr added. "But then you see his picture on the wall...and it all of a sudden it becomes 'wow, this really does relate to me.'
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