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Show Arkansas Town Has Its Own Unknown Soldier People of Pine Bluff, Ark pay homage to Pine Bluffs own unknown soldier, who lies buried there In Bell-wood Bell-wood cemetery. The unknown soldier, on his way back home on a troop train passing through Pine Bluff soon after the termination ter-mination of the war, was taken from tbe train there desperately 111, the vlc-- vlc-- tlm of poison gases encountered on tbe battlefields of France. Be was unconscious when taken from the train and he was unidentified. The local soldiers took bim to a hospital, but he died before they arrived there. The American Legion gave bim a soldier's burial, and the casket was lowered Into the ground while a handful hand-ful of young men who had known the terrors of the battlefield stood about with uncovered heads to honor the memory of a man who, with them, bad offered bis life for his country. Every Ev-ery year flowers are laid on bis grave, |