The Gold Star recount: the First World War roll re-counted, the Second's method stated

1921–2026 · THE RECOUNT METHOD PRINTED WITH THE FIGURE

A roll that is never re-counted is a copy, not a count — so the town's First World War roll is re-counted here against a second carrier, and the figure stands. The method: the 1921 Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll's St. Joseph County section was read for men born at New Carlisle, and the yield checked name by name against the second carrier — the cemetery, sketch and service record as the banked set holds it. The roll stands at two. Stanley Paszkiet, Private — born 26 April 1896 at New Carlisle, son of Simon and Louise Paszkiet, a farmer of the Terre Coupee Polish settlement; enlisted in the Regular Army in August 1917 at South Bend, Battery E, 146th Field Artillery; died of pneumonia on 15 December 1918 in hospital at Verdun, five weeks after the Armistice, in the influenza winter; his body to be returned for burial in St. Joseph Cemetery, South Bend. James W. Swanson, Private — born 19 January 1895 at New Carlisle, son of Clous and Lottie Swanson; an employee of the Studebaker Company when he enlisted on 21 May 1917 at South Bend; the Legion post that carries the town's memory is his memorial — American Legion Post 297, the Swanson post. No third name survives the recount in either carrier: the county section's other entries are other towns' men, and the recount's figure is two, re-counted, not copied. The Second World War roll that would anchor the same discipline for 1941–45 does not close here: it stands as the banked named gap GAP-NC4-WW2-1, and this article states its method so the gap's size is exact — the 1946 Honor List's county pages read against the 1940 Olive Township census, the wartime Gazette, and Post 297's own records; until that read, the town's Second World War dead stand in the wars leg at the strength of the stones and sketches that name them, and no roll figure is printed.

Sources:

1. Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll (1921), St. Joseph County section — the two New Carlisle-born names, nc-war-1898-wwi, and re-counted for this section against the banked cemetery and sketch record.
2. EXPAND-NC4-NOTE — GAP-NC4-WW2-1 and its settlers, as stated.