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Show Oldest and Youngest Members. After extensive research, Kansas members of the Legion believe that they have found the oldest nnd youngest Legion members In the state. Col. Ezra R. Fuller, member of the Leavenworth post. Is seventy-one years old nnd has four wars to his credit the Civil, Indian. Spanish-American Spanish-American and World wars. Colonel Fuller is still on duty at the staff , college, Fort Leavenworth. James W. Weed of Lawrence had just passed his fourteenth birthday when the United States entered the war. One year later Weed, so tbe story goes, slipped by the recruiting officials and was accepted In the navy, where he served as seaman, second class. Weed, who has just reached his eighteenth birthday, took a prominent part In "C'Est Ln Guerre." a piny produced ' &y Eli F. Dorsey post of Lawrence. |