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Show Oldest and Youngest Members-After Members-After extensive research. Kansas members of the Legion believe that they have found the oldest and youngest Legion members In the state. Col. Ezra B. Fuller, member of the Leavenworth post, is seventy-one years old and has four wars to his credit the Civil, Indian, Spanish-American Spanish-American and World wars. Colonel Fuller Is still on duty at the staff college. Fort Leavenworth. James W. Weed of Lawrence had just passed his fourteenth birthday when the United States entered the war. One year later Weed, so the story goes, slipped by tle recruiting ollioials and was accepted In the navy, where be served as seaman, second class. Weed, who has just reached his eighteenth birthday, took a prominent part in "C'Est La Guerre." a play produced by Ell F. Do:sey post of Lawrence. |