City of the Dead LbNA #57682 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 1, 2011 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Sussex |
| County: | Waukesha |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | CC Family  |
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| Found by: | The Christmas Elves |
| Last found: | Jun 12, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFOFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 1, 2011 |
This is the 5th of 6 Memorial Day letterboxes that will be available in May and June.
The City of the Dead
August 5th, 2004
An Najaf, Iraq
In early August Marines of the 11th MEU came to the assistance of the Iraqi police force that was being attacked by al-Sadr’s insurgent forces. Not willing to fight the Marines head on the insurgents retreated into the wadi al-Salam Cemetery. Reputed to be the largest and oldest cemetery in the world. The cemetery is considered sacred by the Iraqis and was part of an exclusion zone that the Marines would not enter.
When the al-Sadr militia tortured a captured policeman to death and broadcast the atrocity over the radio Governor al-Zurufi asked the Marines to pursue the insurgents into the cemetery.
BLT 1/4 entered the cemetery on the morning of August 5th. By nightfall the Marines were ordered to pull back into a defensive position for the night. But a mortar platoon of Company C lead by Lt. Breshears did not receive the orders.
The terrain within the cemetery blocked the radio signals. When the other units pulled back they left Lt. Breshears platoon exposed on three sides. When the insurgents realized that the platoon was isolated they launched a coordinated attack from three directions at once.
Clues:
Begin from the sledding hill parking lot in Lisbon Park. Head north on the wood chip trail. At the first intersection marker turn right and stay on the wood chip trial. Go past the owl. Watch for a chair on the right. Soon after the chair is a huge tree that has been cut down. The trunk of the tree has been marked to show the age of the tree. Take the trail to the right at the old tree and look for a snow man on the left. Go about sixty steps past the snow man and look for a bear on the right about half way up the hill and twenty steps off of the trail. From the bear take five steps at 140° to an upturned tree stump.
The City of the Dead
August 5th, 2004
An Najaf, Iraq
In early August Marines of the 11th MEU came to the assistance of the Iraqi police force that was being attacked by al-Sadr’s insurgent forces. Not willing to fight the Marines head on the insurgents retreated into the wadi al-Salam Cemetery. Reputed to be the largest and oldest cemetery in the world. The cemetery is considered sacred by the Iraqis and was part of an exclusion zone that the Marines would not enter.
When the al-Sadr militia tortured a captured policeman to death and broadcast the atrocity over the radio Governor al-Zurufi asked the Marines to pursue the insurgents into the cemetery.
BLT 1/4 entered the cemetery on the morning of August 5th. By nightfall the Marines were ordered to pull back into a defensive position for the night. But a mortar platoon of Company C lead by Lt. Breshears did not receive the orders.
The terrain within the cemetery blocked the radio signals. When the other units pulled back they left Lt. Breshears platoon exposed on three sides. When the insurgents realized that the platoon was isolated they launched a coordinated attack from three directions at once.
Clues:
Begin from the sledding hill parking lot in Lisbon Park. Head north on the wood chip trail. At the first intersection marker turn right and stay on the wood chip trial. Go past the owl. Watch for a chair on the right. Soon after the chair is a huge tree that has been cut down. The trunk of the tree has been marked to show the age of the tree. Take the trail to the right at the old tree and look for a snow man on the left. Go about sixty steps past the snow man and look for a bear on the right about half way up the hill and twenty steps off of the trail. From the bear take five steps at 140° to an upturned tree stump.