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War Heroes
This is the file the build most owes an honest negative. North Liberty sent men to every American war of its existence and buried veterans of all of them in its own ground — and across eight wars, the official and county record reached records not one valor decoration for any one of them: no Medal of Honor, no cited Silver Star or Bronze Star or Purple Heart at claimable strength, for any named individual, in any war. That is not a gap in the searching. What the file prints instead of heroes is the proof: the tests run, the method that makes the negative mean something, the four hard cases whose records will not quite close, and the women whose service is proven and whose decoration record is the same honest blank.
The summit test: no Medal of Honor recipient of this town
TESTED AGAINST THE OFFICIAL LISTS, BOTH AXES — NEGATIVE
No Medal of Honor recipient entered service from North Liberty, and none was born here. The test was run on the Congressional Medal of Honor Society's official entered-service list — the full text, 9,094 lines, searched entire…
Decorations: none reached at claimable strength, for anyone
THE METHOD MAKES THE NEGATIVE: THE ROLL PRINTS CITATIONS WHERE THEY EXIST
The fullest single service record this town has is its one roll-named dead man's — and it carries no decoration. Private Edward Z. Sousley's Gold Star entry (born at North Liberty 24 September 1895; Co. G, 28th Infantry, 1st…
The completeness check, war by war
EIGHT ROWS; THE SERVICE RECORD FULL, THE DECORATION RECORD EMPTY
Revolution and War of 1812: ancestry claims only, in later men's biographies — no resident's service, and the era predates United States valor decorations in any case. Civil War: no decoration recorded for any of the eleven named…
Hard cases: four records that will not quite close
PRINTED WITH THEIR PROOF PROBLEMS STATED, NOT RESOLVED
Emery C. Farver and David A. Whitmer — the county dead who rest in this town's ground (their whole course, and their claim on this town under the resting-place rule, stand in the wars file). For this section their point is…
The women of the record: service positive, decoration negative
TESTED WHOLE, AT THE SAME STRENGTH AS THE MEN
Women of this ground served in the Second World War and lie in this town's cemeteries under VA markers; no decorated woman of this town was reached in any carrier searched, and no nurse of this town was named by any. Elizabeth…
How the town has honoured them: the pointer
THE WHOLE COURSE IS THE MEMORIALS FILE'S
Each commemoration class was checked individually; the results stand whole in the memorials file and are pointed to, not re-dug. In brief, so this section's reader has the shape: no post in this town is proven named for a war…