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Show GREETINGS TO THE TOMMIES Vice Commander Jackson Carried Commander MacNider's Message to the British Legion. The first man to cross the American continent in an automobile was the nrst man to cross the Atlantic ocean with a Message Mes-sage from American Ameri-can World war service men exclusively ex-clusively to British Brit-ish Tommies. That man is H. Nelson Jackson of Burlington, Bur-lington, Vt, one of the national vice commanders of the American Legion, Le-gion, who recently represented the Legion at an annual meeting of the British Legion, mada up of World war service men of the j British Isles. During the war Mr. Jackson servej in the Medical corps and for gallantry in action was decorated with the D. S. C, Croix de Guerre and the Legion Le-gion of Honor of France. He was promoted through the various ranks from first lieutenant to lieutenant colonel. Tlie greetings which Mr. Jackson presented to the British Legion In behalf be-half of Commander Hanford MacNider declared that: "No generation of our nations have been so closely bound together. to-gether. Through the coming years It must be our mutual duty to so strengthen and cement these ties that from this great undertaking may come peace to all the world." |