Commentary: In war, people marry in haste, leave behind in haste

The 1918 century-old newspaper headline ─ “Marry in Haste in War”─ jolted me out of the daze of a late night online genealogy research session. The article was about my great uncle Charles Alphonsus Duffy, a forgotten Irish-American hero from a forgotten American war.The headline captured the tumultuous last year of his life. Charles was born in 1890 in New York City. His Catholic family was large, with nine siblings, including his sister (my grandmother) Florence Duffy O