Forgotten WWI hero's service rediscovered after a home sale
Fox News
Exactly 100 years ago today Lieutenant General Milton J. Foreman delivered the Armistice Day address at the University of Illinois
McCreery, a communications professional in higher education, would learn that Hirschbein was a member of Foreman's family. Foreman never married and had no children.
Like a history detective, she started to "piece together" the collection.
"It became clear that the collection was about more than a well-loved family member," McCreery said. "The grand photos of him in uniform leading the cavalry, the photo of the marble bust of him, information that a ship had been named after him and the military certificates indicated that he’d played a leading role in history. I became intrigued and would buy whatever became available relating to him.