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Show LEGION MEN BURY COMRADES j Organization Officiates at Almost Every Reinterment of Men Who Fell on Battlefields. With the thousands of bodies being returned to the homeland from the battlefields of France, the American Legion has justified its existence if for no other reason than the display of proper respect for the remains of the country's heroes. In almost every Instance in which the body of a soldier who died overseas has been reinterred in American soil, Legion members have taken part. i Funeral for Indian Comrade. The photograph shows the ceremonies cere-monies of the military funeral held by Carl Anderson Post of the Legion at Cloquet, Minnesota, for John Defoe, De-foe, the first American Indian from the state to be killed In action. The tribe to which the dead soldier belonged be-longed was glad to allow his white comrades to bury him In a manner befitting his brave career In the service serv-ice of his country. |