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1919 · 1945 – 46 · the welcome-home record
No homecoming — no welcome-home parade, reception, or celebration for returning servicemen — was found for Lakeville in any carrier read. The searches ran for both homecoming seasons, 1919 and 1945–46, and for the town's name with every form of the occasion; the returns were other towns' celebrations and other Lakevilles', refused as such. The negative prints at web-record strength with its settler named: the county papers' township correspondence for 1919 and 1945–46, on microfilm, and Post 363's own records — a post chartered in the second war's aftermath is itself the likeliest keeper of whatever welcome the town gave, and its records were not reachable. A township that sent its men out through South Bend's boards and buried its nine Civil War soldiers under a county roll may simply have welcomed its sons at kitchen tables; the record reached neither confirms a public homecoming nor proves none happened, and the file leaves the test exactly there.