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No Place for Personalities in Wartime Tales and War News
Excerpts feature a sobering reflection on a woman named Martha and her hidden sorrows amid a broader wartime context. The piece contrasts intimate domestic drama with public military news noting Major General John F. O'Ryan's nomination to major-general in the officers' reserve corps and his WWI command of the 27th Division.
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Christopher Columbus
Madame Lorimer
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John F. O' Ryan
New York National Guard
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