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Show i:. i: His. n.mn i: His fixed bayonet was pointed toward the enemy. His ste-1 helmet hel-met was tilted down over determined deter-mined eyes. An unseen machine gun spiayed his path with death, but he went forward for America. !n a poppy tudded wheat field he full., They buried him after the wave of battle had swept by. and poppies sprang up around hi.s grave. His victorious comrades, returning - to America, brought memories and the poppy. On Memorial day the men of the American Legion wiU ask us to wear a poppy. The women of the American Legion Auxiliary will offer us poppies on the streets and will give us an opportunity to .aid the war disabled, the widows, and the fatherless children. Can there be a person in St. Oeorire in whom the pulse of patriotism beats so low that he will refuse? He who can so soon fprget the lifttrKiiic sacrifices of the past is a person from whom friends, community and country cats expect little of unselfish service today or In the future. |