Show LEGION MEN BURY COMRADES COMRADE S organization officiates at almost every of men who fell on battlefields with the thousands of bodies being returned to the homeland from th the battlefields of france the american legion has justified its existence it if for no other reason than the display of proper respect for the remains of the count rys heroes in almost every instance in which the body of a soldier who died overseas has baa been re interred in american soil legion members have taken part r vv ag r funeral for indian comrade the photograph shows the ceremonies of the military funeral held by carl anderson post of the legion at cloquet CIo minnesota for john defoe the first american indian from the state to he be killed in action the tribe to which the dead soldier belonged was glad to allow his white comrades to bury him in a manner befitting his brave career in the service of his country |