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THE CLAIM RULE AND THE RECORD'S STRENGTHS
A war belongs to this section at the strength its record names this ground. Three strengths recur and are never blurred. The strongest is the official roll that names the town or township itself — the state Gold Star Honor Roll of 1921 for the First World War, the Defense Department's home-of-record roll for Vietnam. The second is the county record — Chapman's and Howard's county histories, the War Department's county Honor List for the Second World War — which proves the county's course whole and this township's share only where its biographies and lists narrow to township men. The third is the burial record: a man the record itself prints as resting in this town's ground is claimed here under the house rule, wherever he died and wherever his home is proven — his home prints at its own strength beside the claim, and the two facts are never traded against each other. What no carrier names, this section does not name: a township total for the Civil War, a town toll for the Second World War, and a Korean War name for this town were all sought in the carriers named in the articles below and not found, and each prints below as not shown — which is a statement about the record, never a claim that the number was zero.