Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 13 | An Acknowledgment of Service

1 lEAn I An Acknowledgment of Service 1 TI j j He was on liaison duty with a battalion of the Three Hundred Sixth infantry which was sur surrounded by th the enemy north of the Forest de la Ia of the Argonne forest After patrols and runners had been repeatedly shot down while attempting to carry back word of the battalions battalion's p posItion and condition he volunteered volunteered volun volun- t ered for the mission a and successfully accomplished It It rHE citation does not describe the inferno I 1 that was the Forest de la in T. T those awful days No citation expresses fully the great deed of the man it is me meant nt to praise How he ran how he dodged how he flattened flattened flattened flat flat- out and crawled inch after precious inch c through what seemed hours and through what seemed endless m mi cs cs of mud how he fell lab into a shell hole just as a hot hail of machine gun bullets swept the field how he lie felt in that last mad dash the sudden shooting lg pain paul that told sold him he had been hit all hit all this the citati citation n leaves out ut T r f But that is what the man did and he f saved the lost battalion His His nanie name probably ably Jt it will not live as long Jong as Nathan H HIles HIle's Jes Je's or Pa Paul l Reveres Revere's Reveres Revere's is Abraham and his home New York The other day President Coolidge by executive executive ex ex- ex- ex order made Abraham eligible for appointment in the general executive executive tive five service of the government That means he lie can be appointed anywhere in the United States to a government t job t And for this crippled ve veteran l eran out of work but too proud to ask for charity it it was little enough after all these years It represents the barest acknowledgment of seri ser ser- i 3 t. vice Abraham could receive I