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Show (Copy for This Deparimeni Supplied by tho AmerlCRti Lcion News Service.) GUIDES BIG HOSPITAL PLAN William Pierce, Minnesota Legion Commander, Keeps Vow Made While Caring for Wounded. A silent vow made four years ago tv a soldier at a French debarkation V - J LA point will soon be realized by the erection, at Rochester, Roch-ester, Minn., of a grreat memorial hospital. William J. Pierce, now commander com-mander of the American Legion in Minnesota's first district, did not have the opportunity op-portunity of risking risk-ing his life in his country's defense. lie was stationed at a French port, and it was his duty to meet and receive the Red Cross trains from the front, bearing the maimed bodies of American soldiers. The sufferings of those bleeding, crippled men left an indelible mark ..n his mind. He vowed that he would aever forget them and that he would never cease to labor for their welfare. wel-fare. An American Legion memorial hospital, hospi-tal, whose doors will he perpetually open to any ex-service man from any part of the nation, Is now under way, lvlth William J. Pierce guiding the project. The S."iO0,0O0 needed to erect tw lOO-hed wards and to establish estab-lish a Mayo clinic will be raised largely large-ly by the showing of patriotic motion pictures throughout Minnestoa, under the auspices of Legion posts. |