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Show SAM SOO HOO DIED FOR FLAG Body of Patriotic Chinaman, Born and Educated in America, Sent to China for Burial. The last journey of Sam Soo Hoo, killed in action in the Ourcq valley, is told by the American Legion Weekly. Of Chinese parentage on both sides, but born and educated in San Fran-:isco, Fran-:isco, Sain, when he became a young man, went to China and married, thinking think-ing some day to return to America. When in 1917 news came that America had entered the war, Sam kissed his perplexed little bride and said: "I must go." Time passed, and a white cross stood th-er ail that was mortal of Sara Soo Moo. A lied Cross man came along ind took a picture of the grave, sending it on to the widow, who wondered won-dered what it meant. And then a re-jefos"- sine from relatives that the body oe se'it to China. So now, close by Jia gi Chuen, just outside the south gate of Canton, tue slender matron 1 waits the return oi her husband, vvhere, draped In the flag of the country coun-try for which he died, he will be laid In the dust with his honored fathers. |