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Show WHO'S WHO? ? ' ' r . I ' . 'I ' 'i - ' 4 : ' A'v -l'''v; f ' I . ' ' i - ! v. - ovj'- v.i. I "-v - . -; - - i ' ". I """! I 'H -.-v 4. A ; 1 ' v. , t , 1 -x , ' .Vv.. - This is the kind of picture that makes the life of a recruiting officer of-ficer happy. Four young stalwarts,! newly enlisted, and all set to- fight for Uncle Sam. War is a serious business, they seem to say, in their newly acquired uniforms. This picture was taken some -what over 32 years ago. For this foursome enlisted July, 1918. Three weeks later they set foot on French Fren-ch soil. And the four became veterans vet-erans of World War 1. These four are west Millard natives, nat-ives, and were fast 'friends in their community. They were all born in WOO, and were all 18-year olds when this picture was taken. 'They had been .thinking pretty hard about enlisting that summer 01 1918, and were all anxious to go overseas. One lad's father was Postmaster in their town, and in those days the postmaster aided the recruiting officer , So the recruiter told the postmaster post-master to tell the boys that if they enlisted he .would promise them that they would be in France m 30 days. So they did, and they were They had the dubious pleasure, pleas-ure, upon arrival in France, of pitching their tents in bogs of mud and spending many days wading. But they stuck it out, and stayed a year after the Armistice, in various var-ious duties in various places. Then all four returned home, and settled down to the serious business of making a living and raising a family. And they had sons and son-in-laws oust the right age for World War II. One of this group has died in the years gone by The other three are local citizens citiz-ens For further information on their war experiences, readers may apply n person to any of the surviving sur-viving three. . |