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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 Division; killed 20 July 1918 at Château-Thierry; buried at Ploisy) is complete as a county-roll entry, and it records no citation, no medal, no decoration of any kind. The silence is probative because the roll is not a silent book: where a county man held a citation, the roll prints it — the entries for Dietrich and for Holycross, both of South Bend, carry theirs in the same county section read whole. The roll that honours Sousley with a full entry and prints his neighbours' citations prints none for him, and no other carrier reached supplies one. The same result holds, person by person, for every other named servicemember of this ground in every war, as the next article's table records. One record caution rides here because this is where a reader will meet the error: a search-index transcription of the roll pastes onto Sousley's name the 3 October 1918 Argonne death of another soldier (Zell). The full roll text governs; the snippet is a conflation, printed here as a caution about the record, not as a conflict between carriers.
Gold Star Honor Roll (1921), St. Joseph County section read whole; the Dietrich and Holycross entries as the roll's own proof of practice.