Show WORLD WAR YA R N S by frank E hagan man of many medals down near holden Hu lilen mi ali lives a far farmer nier who has hag the right to wear tile III highest chest decorations conferred by live of the allied notions nations they tire me elgia in nui number n ber tile the british service cross tile lie french Aleda ille the french croix tie de guerre with three palms the belgian crowde crola 1 guerre tile the belgian war nr cross the lie Ital lafi cross tind the dt dp bravery of montenegro I 1 ID li tie lie wears the american victory medal with six bars or blittle clasps bindl eating that hint he was in six sl major en gagen ga gement lent tn III france inure hall any other biedal of inan in in living alln or dealt dead had and last and greatest gren lesl file con gressional gress lonal of honor each pelm on his french croix de guerre represents three for bravery in tile face of the enemy riltia citations in nil tile tint fent which won the congressional medal of honor one of tile the most in fit tile lie whole athole history of the american arms was per fored felir cune finace Fra liev on october 7 1 1018 1918 by john L barkley of company h R fourth bourth in when ft lien ne nc cording to the file of lIvIal citation private barkley who nho was fans stationed in an atlon post half a n kilo meter from the german linton hl hi own reli vired a captured enemy machine gun aind mounted it in tt it french ank neni ills post shortly afterward when the enemy elein launched laun cheil cheo n counter against our forces liante liln te blinkley got into if alii tank walled under tile hostile barrage until the hie enemy enemy line was abreast of cf him bilm and alin opened opined fire complete lv br enking up tile the counterattack counter and kill kl ing wounding wound lii a large number ol of the enemy phe five minutes later inter in an enemy gun opened fire op oil the tank point blank one shell struck tile lie drive alicel of the hie trink but this file soldier Bold lir nevertheless remained ined in the tank and lifter after the lie barrage ceased broke up j v eneany PHI mv counter at tack ahert fly en nhUng our forces it gain find and hold 2 3 11 0 scarcely a shock unit smile ot of file reasons roi fo exemption from military service iiii nn der the provisions of the selective I 1 service not net commonly known knon as tile draft were to say the fear 4 hut but it Is doubtful it if in n till nil the history lil of that hint incident of the world orld war it a more coin s I 1 ve list of dis abill ties was waa brought hiou glit forward to prove that a parent t balse his hoy boy to be a soldier tithe than was n this one in eluded in a letter re elved by a chicago exemption board it said in biart liart min mica a hoy boy eleven years old he got badly hurt and hod hd a bd bad defect with tila filpi back ile he tins has I 1 trouble rouble to td stoop to pick up tip anything thing tin and one leg Is thon the other and he hurt his hand und and has hn one stiff linger finger atio and a defect on file lie other daml and hp hurt I 1 Is liend head and sted stayed hard of henr hear ing cent walk for tie lie suffers of a sore side and tile the same aine i when alien driving back and side gets tg awful sire when nhen he ge lifts anything henvy heavy ros att bloodshot and trouble to see BOP tiny ex cite ments nets gets frightened ile he could never go to school and haq ns sick lie he cant rend read or wrife wille and Is cross cros eyed ile HP froze ills heels nine beirs I 1 no ago and every winfer Is old if u ui 1 wl with h sot boie soie e heels and ills feet get bad and ne he cut ills foot news across the file top and three stiff toes holler hin to walk alk tie ile Is drowsy and sleepy all his life and when lie noes goes to sleep lie cholie choke and jumps up and 9 nr fur brent breath h and tie he wits MB bended fended by a doele rr for two to years for a 11 when he culls ile he gets sick tind tins to to go to tied lied I 1 testify I 1 these fuels facts are true und he be Is evell worse billin I 1 time have pill down don aind 11 nd he leivis in ili MI ills ju jut t to ci cicmil imil wath file lie law bin and nnie it if tile war nr goes on we will send him to tile the asT asylum lum ills his anther tnt In lier ther the youngest american aho MO vho alls tle tie i ler ot of tile the Arnor Arner kan fein briny during tile hie arll Vr ll war lin abass eil litno distinction for arnem sweeney senei ol of lorraine I 1 post of foreign it a lit in I 1 ihal bat c alti ty ile he enil stel lit fo fourteen urleen celebrated his fifteenth hirth birthday day on the tit ol franice nil and tills hns ali tilled to tn the vur department for re n ol of ills his claim to tn being the youngest ou nest amer tenn lean sold soldier ler west Virgin lit also hns has a in 1018 chester of W V then n R ind of fourteen awny to cumberland md enfil ron convinced vInced a ofil er cr taint lint lie he was eighteen and atis aai ile he was m sent to aalop I 1 oil in flit rice to ci 0 till nip mills N y and on june 7 sailed to frim irnise e tie he served ns as a member or of lie first aid crew with the seventh lun un in hie file I 1 third elrd Il bt at bose I 1 lo spital no wa aw has it i letter leller from wood mcw wilson written after the war president find and left eft the while house which says js through a allicer ol of tho the war deportment I 1 learn you lou ahre arc th fit youngest hallier so an or not american soldier to set foot sim on fur eign in defense or of de decourney end for thos choai things s for which we ami amii i leans stand As your former com mander in chief I 1 extend to yint 1011 mi air heartiest tra 10 western no NT v ahei p |