Meuse Argonne episode 4 with Host Pamela Clark

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Speaker 1 (00:45):
Welcome to the New Heights Show on Education. This is
your host, Pamela Clark and this is an episode of
American Men and women tell their Stories of survival. This
is the fourth episode covering the muse Are Gone, So
let's get right on into it. This information is being

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taken taken from Metering through the prologue dot com and
this will be the first link down below, so if
you want to open it and look it over as well.

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This is Life's loss beyond the metals and the muse
are Gone ab mc Cemetery. It's a really lovely picture
that they shared of the grounds. This is the mass
of the graves at Museargne a b mc cemetery belonged

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to men who did not win medals but still did
their duty. They made up the main throng of the
two million strong American Expeditionary Force in France during World
War One. In two previous posts, I talked about the
stories and the men honored with the Medal of Honors

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or some honored with the second highest, the Distinguished Service Cross.
In this post, some of the other stories around found
among the graves that Musargon came to light. The stories
are mostly of officers, for their lives were generally a

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little longer and better recorded than the greater number of
young enlisted men just starting out in life. West Pointers,
Like many of the dead buried at the Musargone, most
of those who graduated from the military Academy at West
Point were young Of the six west Pointers here before

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graduated from West Point only after the US entered into
the war in April nineteen seventeen. There's images of these
young men. One was Francis E. Dougherty as a West
Point cadet, and the other is George W. Sackett as

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a young officer. Starting with Captain Francis Eugene Doherty of
the forty first Regiment, third Division, took command of his
battalion for only twenty four hours before an artillery shell
mortally wounded him. October fifteenth, nineteen eighteen. Dougherty fell with

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forty six other men within fifteen yards of each other
during the German barrage. The same day, one of his classmates,
Captain George Wibble Wilbur Sackett, died from the machine gun
fire as he led the company f eleventh Regiment, fifth Division.

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Let me, I have to go to a different page
for SACKET, So when I share the link, make sure
you're clicking on them, and of course go back to
the previous page as I read on. But right now
I'm going to click on Captain George Wilbur's Sackett OKAY

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number five six seventy eight, class of nineteen seventeen, died
October fourteenth, nineteen eighty, at Cuno, France, age twenty six.
George Wilbur Sackett was born in Illinois Summer fourth, eighteen
ninety one. He entered Military Academy with the class of

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nineteen seventeen and graduated with that class on April twenty,
nineteen seventeen, six weeks early due to the war, he
elected to serve with the Inventory. In June, was assigned

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to the eleventh Infantry, then stationed at Camp Oglethorpe. He
sailed for France in April nineteen eighteen in command of
Company F. During an attack in the Argonne, Captain Sackett
was struck by several machine gun bullets while leading his
men to the assault. He died a few minutes later.

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Respected by his classmates at the Academy and officers and
men with whom he served in France. It had the
rare quality of inspiring confidence and also associates. He was
always he will always be remembered by us of the

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class of nineteen seventeen as generous, chivalrous, and courageous in
every sense of the word, an officer and a gentleman.
It's hard to believe that never again can George enliven

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our class gatherings. We will miss the cheerful smile which
taste care in the days of tense, dear merits and
other worries. We wish it could have, We wish it
could have remained with us in this time of greater responsibility.

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But who can deny that his was the greatest privilege
of all. He fell on the field of battle, facing
the common civilization. Yet it is only in an infinitetismal
fraction him that has gone. The dauntless, the dauntless, optimistic

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spirit that we loved and admired, the spirit that animated
his great sacrifice lives on. George is still one of us. Okay,
So I'm gonna go back now to the previous page.
Now I had read before you know about Captain Francis

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Eugene Dougherty. There is a leak as well. So I'm
gonna go kind of back up just a little and
let's learn a little bit more about Francis Jene Dougherty T.
He was an infantry killed in action October fifteenth, nineteen

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eighteen U Sargon. The battalion commander, third Division number five
two or five six two zero, class of nineteen seventeen,
killed in action October sixteenth, nineteen eighteen, in the Argonne
Forest in France, at age twenty three. Captain Francis C.
Daugherty was born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, August twentieth, eighteen

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ninety five. His schooling was taken in the public schools
of Glenwood, where he moved with his parents and lived
until he went to West Point. Early in his life
he showed marked ability along mechanical and musical lines. In
photography and drawing. He left many excellent pictures. Much of

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his spare time was spent in designing mechanical and electrical
equipment for his own enjoyment, a telegraph line and a
phonograph being practical successful results of his efforts. Musically, he
had marked ability, for he played the piano, violin the

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clarinet unusually well and sang in choruses and choirs during
his years in school. While not an exceptional athlete yet,
he was interested in football and basketball and played on
all the high school teams in these sports. During his

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last year in high school, he received an appointment to
West Point. Without further study, he passed examinations necessary for entrance.
Upon graduating with his high school class, of which he
was the valedictorian, he went to West Point to continue
his education, entering the academy in June of nineteen thirteen

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and graduating on April twentieth, nineteen seventeen. During his first
year at the academy, he was known as a good
plub and a man who applied himself consistently to his duties.
Throughout his entire stay at the Point, he was always
near the lead of his class, not only because he

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was a bright intellect, but because he was a hard worker.
He was fond of the gymnasium and always represented his
class with credit at the annual indoor meets. On graduation,
Captain Doherty was assigned at his own request to the
fourth Infantry, then stationed at Gettysburg National Park, Pennsylvania for

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a few months. He was in command of a rifle company,
after which he was given the headquarters company, which he
organized in its own in its new complexity. On or
In April nineteen eighteen, Captain Doherty sailed for overseas service
was his regiment, and after a month training, the fourth

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Infantry was sent to Chateau to assist in stopping the
German drive on Paris, which took place in the latter
part of May. About a month later, Captain Doherty received
a real opportunity to show his ability when the second
big drive of the year in that vicinity had been

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checked in His regiment was leading the third Division in
its advance against the enemy. When the fourth Infantry was
a small distance beyond a town on the northern side
of the Marne called Saint Pierre, he was placed in command.
During the remainder of that ants up as up as

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far as Ranchers in all about ten days. At this
point the regiment was relieved and sent to the rear
to be reorganized, as it had suffered heavily or heavy casualties.
When new field officers were assigned to the regiment he began.
He again assumed command of the headquarters company, which he

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conducted with great ability throughout the Saint Meel Drive and
later in the Argonne, until upon the death of Major
Roy Melvin Smith, he was placed in command of the
first Battalion. Captain Doherty held his command less than twenty

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four hours, when, in the midst of our attack, the
enemy laid down a heavy counter barrage, and a shell
bursting a few feet from Captain Doherty wounded him seriously.
Colonel Housta Dorry, who was near him, did all that

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was possible to stop the flow of blood which followed,
and refused to leave an officer who had rendered him
such a valuable service, in spite of the fact that
he was repeatedly urged to seek a place of safety.
Captain Doherty lived about an hour, always maintaining the same

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calm manner which had characterized him throughout his life, though
it was evident that he was suffering great pain. Later,
forty six dead Americans were counted with a radius of
fifteen yards from the place where Captain Doherty had given
up his life. Not only does the class of nineteen

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seventeen warn a loved classmate in his death, but the
Army has lost a valuable offer officer who was the
embodiment of the Academy's motto Duty, Honor Country. He was
never known to use profanity or intoxicating liquors, and perhaps

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the best way to picture him is you say, in
the fullest sense of its meaning, he was a Christian
gentleman through and through. Everyone who came in contact with
him held him in the highest esteem, and he seemed
not to have an enemy in the world. There is
but one consoling fact in his death, and that is

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a man who lived a life as he did can
only be in one place where he now enjoys the
eternal reward for a life well spent and freely given
for a great cause.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
F A.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Marca. Okay, bear with me just a moment. Okay, We're
going to take a quick commercial break, and I'll be
right back with the fourth episode of the Muse.

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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Welcome back to the New Heights Show on Education and
to American servicemen and women that tell their stories of survival. Okay,
so still on that same page the medical staff, so

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I want to cover them as well. His physicians serving
as infantry. Several physicians lie here in Musagone. Major Alfred
Reginald Allan was a renowned neurologist in Philadelphia. Alan was
also a musician, musical writer, photographer, and was married with

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two children. He attended the first officer training class at
Plattsburgh in nineteen fifteen, renewing his training a year later
with America in the war. Alan became major in October
nineteen sixteen, deciding he could make more of a difference

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on the field of back, then off directing his battalion
of the thirty fourth Regiment, seventy ninth Division. The major
fell from his artillery shrapnel in September twenty ninth, nineteen eighteen,
near Nantilis. He died the next morning. A center a
cenotaph remembers doctor Allen in Laurel Hill Cemetery of Philadelphia.

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Allen left behind a wife instead of twins. There is
an image of him, but there's also a clickable links,
so I'm going to click on that on his name
the title okay. He was born in East Greenwich, Kent County,
of Rhode Island and died in Well. Falcone are gone

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in Loraine, France. Okay, let me see there's anything else.
The show's grave. Okay, Mariam me Josepha, let me see.

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Major Offred R. Allen came to his untimely but glorious
and toward the close of the World War One, at
the height of the fierce and prolonged engagement known as
Emuse Argonne Offensive. The battle was largely fought over the
ground intervening between the forest of the Argonne and the

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west side of the Muse. On September twenty sixth, a
commanding position known as mal Facon were captured by the
American forces. The fight continued until October fourth. About five
point thirty in the afternoon of September twenty ninth, Major Allen,
while directing his battalion at the little village of Nantilis,

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a few miles from alphaul Mon Falcone, received a fatal
shrapnel wound in his head. He did not regain consciousness
and died at four o'clock on the morning of September thirtieth.
He was buried with military honors not far from the
place of his death. Allan's preparatory education was at Selwynne Hall,

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near Reading, Pennsylvania. He was a student at Lehigh University
in eighteen ninety three and eighteen ninety four, and graduated
in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in eighteen ninety eight.
He married on January twenty first, nineteen oh four, to Helen,
daughter of E. Burgis and Emma Bulton Warren. His wife

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survives him, and he leaves two children, Alfred Reginald Allen,
Junior and Helen Warren Allan twins born March twenty second,
nineteen o four. For years after his graduation, Alan was
associated as personal and hospital assistant with the late doctor

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s Wyre A. Mitchell. He was held in high esteem
by doctor Mitchell, from whom he received his first impulse
to the pursuit of neurology. In nineteen oh five, Alan
engaged in pathologic research in the Laboratory of Neuropathythy or

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Neuropathology excuse me of the University of Pennsylvania. In the
following year, he became formally connected with the neurological staff
of the University Medical School. From nineteen oh seven to
nineteen eleven, he was instructor in Neurology and Neuropathology from

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nineteen oh seven, Assistant neurologist to the University Hospital from
nineteen eight until the time of his death, one of
the chiefs of Clinic of the Neurological Department, and from
nineteen eleven Associate Neurology and Neuropathology. For several years he
was assistant or neurologist to the Philadelphia General Hospital. Allen

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was a fellow of the College's Physicians of Philadelphia and
was a member of the Philadelphia Neurological Society, of which
he was secretary in nineteen oh eight nineteen oh nine
and president nineteen ten. He was a member of the
American Neurological Association, of which he was secretary and treasurer

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nineteen oh nine to nineteen seventeen. He was one of
the original members of the American psycho Pathological Association, of
which he was president from nineteen fourteen and nineteen fifteen.
As secretary of the United States delegation, he attended the
sixteenth International Medical Congress at Budapest in nineteen oh nine,

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and in the same capacity the seventeenth International Medical Congress
at London in nineteen thirteen. So all of this is important.
His story behind what happened is important. But this is
quite a lengthy one and you can read it for

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yourself because there's lots to cover. And again, I did
want to give him some recognition for his background, and
you know how he ended up to go and sacrifice
his life for our country and for freedom. Okay, Another

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doctor the fallen in action was first Aetutenant Clyde Everett Shed,
also originally from West Virginia. He graduated from the Oakland,
californ Or New Medical School in May nineteen seventeen. He
was assigned to the three hundred and twenty seventh Regiment,
eighty second Division. Shed died from an artillery blast at

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Flaville October sixteenth, nineteen eighteen. There's an image of him
and a notice of doctor Shed's death back in San Francisco.
Let me see, I think you can click on these
to make them bigger. Um, yes, hold on a moment.
These were all right, okay, says the lieutenant Shed dies

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in action. The San Francisco friends of Lieutenant Clyde e
sad Oh sorry it doesn't stay still will be grieved
to learn today of his death in the action in

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the battlefield of France. Okay, sorry, this is moving. With
my vision issues, it's making it very difficult for me
to be able to read this. So it's just down
below and you can click on it and make it
bigger and read that for yourself. Sorry. I just can't

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contend with stuff like that when that happens. Okay. Captain
Timothy Lawrence Barber Junior graduated from Medical College or Virginia Richmond,
a physician surgery in Charleston, West Virginia. Before the war,
he accidentally dropped a match on some flares left behind

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in a crater by retreating Germans. Both he and Captain
Mevin m Augustine, a dentist, died a few days after
from the burns that they incurred. October tenth, nineteen eighteen.
A centigraph and Charleston remembers the young doctor who left
behind his wife and a little boy and a little

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further afilled. First Lieutenant William Shorter Bowl with the one
hundred and fourteenth Regiment, twenty ninth Division, died in Belgium
at Malbrock or mault Broke Hill, originally buried at semil
Neuex Military Cemetery. His remains ended here at the Mew Sargonne.

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Two centigraphs remember him on the other side of the Atlantic.
One is in his hometown of Cranberry, New Jersey, and
the other in Circleville, New York. There are some images
of him and a monument other doctors. Henry Grady Adams

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was a twenty seven year old physician from Rock Springs, Wyoming.
He had grown up in Alabama, graduating from the Oklahoma
University College of Medicine in nineteen fifteen. He died at
Langris on September twenty third, nineteen eighteen. Langris was where

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new medical officers went for two week in Doctor Nation
courses to orientate to orient them to war medicine. Possibly
Adams suffered an accident there, so they're not sure what
happened to him. Oh, okay, so doctor Leslie James Phillips.

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His service cost him life from the flu the Spanish flu.
Doctors were not immune to the Spanish flu. First Lieutenant
Leslie James Phillips graduated from Queen's University in Medicine in Kingston, Ontario,
in nineteen twelve, practicing in the little town of why

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wire Husher, Wisconsin, before offering to serve assigned to serve
on the one hundred and thirty second Ambulance Corps on
the one hundred and eighth Sanitary Train of the thirty
third Division. Phillips died October thirteenth, nineteen eighteen from complications

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of the flu, weakened from the strain of overworking taking
care of a large number of wounded from the musergon
ok now Are and cover nurses. Three of four nurses

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buried at the muse Sargon ABMC also died from the flu.
There's pictures here. Carolyn Chrismin served all over the world
in her nursing career. Carolyn H. Christmin thirty nine years old,
had spent two years in Shanghai as a nurse before
the war. She completed graduate work at the Harvard Medical

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School as well before joining the nursing court. Annie Sorry
Annie Dade Reveri, thirty eight years old, worked as a
nurse with the Avocation Hospital Number four until her death

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October eighteenth, nineteen eighteen, also from the flu. Or Charlotte Cox,
forty two years old, came to France as part of
the Base Hospital Number forty two team from the University
of Maryland. She came onto an active duty on March thirteenth,
nineteen eighteen. A month later, there were only four hundred

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and three nurses in the entire Army nursing Court. By
the end of the war, eight months more, there were
twenty one thousand, four hundred and eighty. Over two hundred
would die in service. The flu claimed twenty eight September
following the war, her remains removed from the cemetery at

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the Base Hospital, which was closed to the Musargone nurse
Dorothy Beth Milman, twenty four years old, died at the
Base Hospital number thirty one from gallbladder inflammation, the only
non flu related death here. Her brother, drafted as a private,

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also served at the same hospital. Can click on each
one of these and there's pictures of all of these individuals.
Another Marion G. Crandall, was a YMCA canteen worker with
a German shell hit the hostel in which she worked.

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Crandall was a graduate of Sarbonne and had been teaching
French and Davenport, Iowa. Before the war. She was only France.
She was only France for two months before she died
on March twenty seventh, nineteen eighteen. The first woman to

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die in World War One on active service. Originally, she
was buried in Saint Mount Meanhowld, but her remains transferred
to meet Sargonne after the war. The American Red Cross
armand Wadehouse Pearce was an english Man working with the

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American Red Cross. Pierce worked early earlier as a journalist
in New York before moving to Ireland. He married a
English irishwoman, Mabel Costgrove. She was the author of several books.
Informally was married to a nephew of local Burmese king.

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Pierce and Cosgrove were married in nineteen eleven. Pierce died
in France October thirty first, nineteen eighteen. His wife, or
I'm sorry his was seemingly continued a career of blackmail
she and possibly Pierce, had been involved with earlier. One

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of her victims was none other than Oscar Wilde. Oh
my gosh, isn't that crazy? You just never know? Okay
and Melise drivers Robertbert Pierce Hall was from Hollywood, California,
but more recently the University of Minnesota. He came to

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France to work as an ambulance driver with Norton Hart.
I'm not trying to say this Harrel's heart. I don't know.
Ambulance Corps an ambulance service served by Americans, similar to
the American Film Service. An artillery shell killed Robert on
September thirteenth, nineteen seventeen. He had been buried in the

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French military hospital and was moved to the Musargonne after
the war. There's a centigraph remembering him in Minneapolis, a
long victory memorial drive Robert. Ok okay, so there's a
picture of him. Okay, still working on these. Let me

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see here. Yes, there are a lot of these. We
are going to go through, go through them, but all
not just today. Hold on a moment, all right, we'll
check our time here. Okay, we are overtime. I was

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starting to think we were. I am going to share
more of these stories on the next on the next episodes.
Seems like there will be a number of episodes. Are
still a lot to cover, and I know some of
these aren't really like first hand accounts, but it's still

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is telling a story about those people. I hope that
the things that you're gathering from all of this is
really this could be anybody, anybody, could you know be
inspired to serve for their country and give their life.
These are, you know, the boy and girls next door,

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and they're the ones that helped us keep the freedom
we have, so I want to share it I can
about each of them. I don't want to skip over anybody.
And if anybody has a story to tell, if they
have a family member that's served in it and they
want to tell their story, I'd be very happy to

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