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War Heroes
The summit test: no Medal of Honor recipient is this town's
The test the leg requires first · printed whole
The test is run first because the leg requires it, and its result is negative — for the town, and instructively near it on every side. The Congressional Medal of Honor Society's rolls and the county and state records read for…
James W. Swanson: the private the post is named for
1895–1919 · 1st Engineers Train, 1st Division
He is the only man of this town whose name is carried by an institution, and the institution is the town's veterans' hall. James W. Swanson was born at New Carlisle 19 January 1895, son of Clous and Lottie Swanson. He was an…
Hugh Maynard Burch: the unaccounted-for
1930–1951 · U.S. Air Force, Korea — remains not recovered
The town's highest continuing obligation is a staff sergeant whose file the Defense Department still keeps open. Hugh Maynard Burch was born 22 April 1930. His home of record in the Defense Casualty Analysis System is New…
Stanley Paszkiet: died of pneumonia at Verdun
1896–1918 · Battery E, 146th Field Artillery
The Terre Coupee settlement's Gold Star son died of the war's second killer, in the war's most famous fortress town, after the guns stopped. Stanley Paszkiet was born at New Carlisle 26 April 1896, son of Simon and Louise…
The heroes of the stones: the decorated question put to the churchyard
1861–1865 · decoration-absence checks, war by war
The Hamilton stones name eleven soldiers with their regiments (the wars file carries them): an Illinois infantryman of 1864–65, David Eaton; Lewellyn Faurote of the 27th Indiana, dead in August 1865; Nathaniel S. Cory Faurote…
The women of the record, tested
The standing test · no service role reached
The leg requires the test, and the test is honestly negative. No woman of New Carlisle or Olive Township appears in the records read for this build in a military or nursing service role in any war — not in the county histories'…
Limits of this section
What would raise it, and what would not
this section's honors are few because the record's attributions are few, and this section's discipline prefers a short true roll to a long borrowed one. Three settlers could lengthen it honestly: the compiled service records of the township's Civil War men, which carry wounds, captures and commendations the sketches omit; the Post 297 archives, which hold the post's own honor roll of the Second World War's generation; and the DAR inscriptions of the township's other three grounds, which may carry stones of the same kind as Hamilton's. Until those are read, the town's heroes stand as printed: a post named for a private, an airman unaccounted for, a farmer dead of pneumonia at Verdun, two soldiers of Washington in one churchyard, and a decoration column that the record leaves, war by war, empty.
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