Military Veterans
Ira H. Graham
Date of Birth
25 December 1902
Date of Death
6 October 1992
Brick Location
Eagle Side
Panel Number
18
Biography
Ira Graham was 4-F (critical asthmatic condition) during World War II, so could not go to war, but he was a loyal American in every sense of the word all of his life. He grew up in El Dorado, KS, and built B-17s first, then B-29's at Boeing Airplane Company. Three of his brothers—Ralph, and Robert, as well as his brother-in-law L. W. Newcomer—did serve.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt expressed appreciation to citizens like Ira Graham in the following words engraved at the World War II Memorial in Washington DC:
"They have given their sons to the military services, They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks, riveted the ships and rolled the shells."
Branch:
Other
Years
World War II