The Bartholomew County Memorial for Veterans honors the living and the dead who answered the nation’s call in the conflicts of the twentieth century. It includes a July 1918 letter in which Louis Tabor, writing to his mother Susan Tabor of Columbus from a hospital bed in France, told her not to worry, said he was shot, knew he would die, asked God to bless her, and wrote that he was too weak to continue, hours before he died of wounds suffered in a World War I battle.