John Ginzl’s oldest living relative Richard Ginzl receives the flag from U.S. Army Master Sgt. Alexander Dennis at Forest Home Cemetery last Sunday. John Ginzl’s cremains are in the box on the table at right.
(Photo by Ardith Carlton/River News)
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Memorial service completes Ginzl’s long journey home
A circle spanning some 86 years was brought to an awe-inspiring close last Sunday. Corporal John James “Jack” Ginzl, a Rhinelander High School basketball and tennis star who became the first Rhinelander paper mill employee to enlist to fight in World War II, and who was killed after 1,006 days in captivity as a prisoner of war and was buried in a mass grave in then-Formosa before being recovered by U.S. forces, was at last identified decades later (see “John Ginzl Comes Home,” May 22 Northwoods River News).
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