Show bothams Go thams legless veteran of no wars ely the man who N NEW came close to ito being bein the roost most tear pulling hero 07 0 the war ar 11 who only missed such su amit heroism jb J b by te distance that separated st sigunda atin colo from chateau thierry could if he hd had ahny legs be caid to have taken to his beels suddenly and vanished daniel edwards edvards only service man ind nto to win both the fb p S 0 and the congressional medal and a m mein e aber her of the vocation vocational nal commit committee iee of the stat states veterans bureau lexington avenue and an d forty sixth street made public thel record of reader denson deason legless veteran ye teran of no ayar 10 ra for gr afo two years ears says edwards edvards deason palmed ills his cegles le 94 edness aness on the come B back a ek cuba cub club a voi veterans erans bation composed composed combo sed chiefly of columbia university students posing as a maimed soldier when edwards asserts ho never was in tile the army or navy anthe jn the war war beletso daison n who in 1022 and 1023 was ivas and of f the tl manager on the board boa 1 ir of ip to rs 11 nd ini operator bithe al or im the canteen 1 V t f i X at camp camp Blue bluefields fields near blauvelt na Y whee the come back club has had had cheuse e icse of the old stam rifle rangers ran range geas as a camp caal was waa ordered ardt aed to take his buti but ton tin offard off and get out dwards said denson deason came east in 1019 1919 being sent by the colorado fuel antl and iron company a rockefeller corporation po ration alon to the he war demonstration hospital sixty f fourth street and avenue A loewa he was ernp employed royed by the company I 1 as a clerk when nis legs beca became me infected acted at the hospital deacons Dea sons leg W were amputated and when convalescing there he hd beard wounded veterans tell of the battle of chateau thierry when apen reason aleason left the hospital he knew kaev N more about that battle than the veterans nybo iio fought at t with with his war anecdotes he won universal sympathy an in 1920 in farl earl hn hall ll columbia university ver sity tit at a meeting of the come back club the abbreviated figure of denson was wasI brought on to the stage on a W wheel heel chair ea every very conein one in the hall bull stood up und and uncovered andi and as a result deason so i was invited to banque banquets fe given money azid and jewelry and lionized |