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Show (Copy for This Department Suppl't. d by the Amertrnn Legion News Service.) LEGION MAN' IS LIFE SAVER John L. Piazza, Officer 4944, New York Police Force, Well Deserves His Medals. Saving lives Is almost a specialtv with officer 4044 of the New York Jn"V police force, for- mer private and I 'msL K top sergeant of if f the Three Hun- V . " dred and Twelfth Yp? ri Infantry, A. E. F.. now a nlemler f ' the General La- fayette Police ' ,ot post, American i Legion, In New I ' , ' ?l , tvJ York City, I'atro'-I I'atro'-I a & maa Piazza. John tw-isa L wears the Dis. anguished bervice Cross. It was in the Argonne In October, 1918, near Grand Pre. Piazza, advancing advan-cing with his platoon, saw a badly waunded officer laying alone In No Man's Land, abandoned when his lines fell back to re-form. On his stomach. Piazza crawled out to the spot, slung the wounded man over his shoulder and standing erect, carried lilra to safety safe-ty with the shells whistling and exploding. ex-ploding. Discharged from the army, Patrolman Patrol-man Piazza resumed his bent in the far reaches of the borough of the Brox. It wasn't long after that when he dnsbed up Into a burning building, rescued an invalid woman and carried car-ried her to the street. Shortly after that he stopped a runaway horse and saved a group of women and children from Injury. Officer 4944 is twenty-nine twenty-nine years old, married and the father of a son. |