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Show Needy German Soldier Cared for by Legion At Chateau Thierry, with Americans too close for comfort, Herman Schmidt, a German soldier, suffered a shattered leg from the explosion of a shell. A few months ago Schmidt went to Chicago, Chi-cago, where relatives obtained work for him in a grocery, but the old wound gave him considerable pain. Schmidt kept his trouble to himself, imagining if it were known that h(i had been a German soldier members of the American Legion would have him deported. Infection set in and the man's life was endangered, so despite his protests a "brother told a neighbor, neigh-bor, a member of the American Legion. Le-gion. The next day members of the Legion Le-gion again surrounded Schmidt, but this time their presence was a comfort com-fort to him, as they carried him to nn ambulance and sent him to a hospital. hos-pital. Now Schmidt regards his former for-mer enemies as men of human qualities, quali-ties, and the Legion as a ministering angel. |