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Show 1 1 FOUR MEDALS ON HIS BREAST H Carl M. Lange of Nebraska Is That . H State's Most Decorated World ) War Veteran. ' I H Four medals on his breast and tho . French cord on his arm make Carl M. "' -jk Lange of Hart- t&k lngton, Neb., that &vtf Btato's most dec- M&jgL orntcd World war ESpB voteran. Com- flrlPlsP paratlvely few a "? mcn wno fou8ht Sffifu, 'or or with to enlisted men and' t6 .commanders-in-chief of armies In tlie field. No ofllcer In between Is eligible to receive tho medal. Yet ' Lango 'was awardCd two. Ono Marshal 1'ctaln pinned on his O. D. Severnl months after the armlstlco Lango opened a registered package with a French stamp on It and fourid another Medalllo MUltalro. The highest honor Nebraska could give one of Its World war heroes went to LaLgt also. He was chosen by tho I state commander of tho American Le gion to officially represent Nebraska at tho hurlnl In Arllngton'ccmetcry of the "Unknown Soldier." The Dlstin-gulshed Dlstin-gulshed Service cross, bestowed person, ally by General Pershing, the Croix do Guerre with palms and the knowledge that he carried Merle Hay from tho trenches aro other things that remind Lange of hid war service. Hay was the first Iowa boy killed In the war and one of the first three American boys to die In action. |