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Veterans · the county's hand and the federal hand
The wars leg of this build runs the township's men whole; what it never ran was the machinery that serves them afterward: the Grand Army root at county size, Memorial Day as an institution, the county service office, the veterans treatment court, and the federal clinic across the line. This addendum carries those at the record's strength — the court from the Indiana courts' own reporting, the clinic from the act of Congress that named it — and banks the one article the record cannot yet write, the homecomings, as a named gap with its settler.
The Grand Army at county size: the root, counted as far as the record counts it
item 1 — every post in the county, named as a set
This township's post stands whole in the wars leg — Deacon Post No. 115 of New Carlisle — South Bend, Mishawaka, and North Liberty , named at city strength in the wars file. Counted as seats, the county's Grand Army geography in…
Memorial Day as an institution: from the Grand Army's order to Post 297
item 2 — the observance, its sponsor, and its route through the town's life
The institution begins with the Grand Army's own order: Decoration Day was instituted by the G.A.R.'s General Order No. 11 of 1868, and for this township its first keepers were Deacon Post No. 115's comrades, decorating the…
Memorials by war: the marker stock tested class by class
item 6 — by war and by institution, with the boundary classes pointed
Tested war by war, this ground's memorial stock is two wars deep: the Civil War Memorial of 1909 in the town cemetery and the World War II Honor Roll — both carried in the banked set's marker stock — and no further class. The…
The county's hand: the service office and the veterans treatment court
item 7 — office, stand down, and court, with holders named
The county serves its veterans from South Bend, and its court's course can now be printed whole: the St. Joseph County veterans service office — the county's accredited hand for claims and benefits — sits at the county seat…
The federal hand: no VA years in this town; the clinic across the line, named and dated
item 8 — the VA's course for this county, and the current facility
The VA has never kept a facility in New Carlisle, and its county course is the clinic's: for most of the federal hand's history, this township's veterans travelled to the VA's hospitals outside the county — the VA Northern…
The homecomings
item 9 — the staged returns, war by war
No homecomings article can yet stand, and the leg banks the want instead of a paragraph of atmosphere: the returns this town staged — the welcome for the men of 1919, of 1945–46, of 1953, and whatever the Vietnam years brought…