“It bothered him that his father’s name would never be on the War Memorial in front of the Town Hall. It wouldn’t bring him back, but it would have been nice to see him honored. However, the United States hadn’t been at war yet, so Charles Curtis was just a name on a headstone in Pine Grove Cemetery. He was one of many Bound Brook sailors with empty graves who had been lost at sea. Like the minister had said at his father’s funeral: “They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.””

— BOUND BROOK POND: Cape Cod Mystery II (Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery Book 2) by Rick Cochran”