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One Son Cripped at Verdun,sAnton Hein Sends An-r other to War.oiIDays filled with worry and nights of u anxiety told on Anton Hein of Cedar { | I^ake today when he appealed to Ser- j geant Welch of Hammond for aid In finding trace of his lost soldier boy. The tears streamed down the face of■j the aged man and his lips trembled as fl ■ he fought to control his grief. jaHe's my boy—rny child, the father 0 sobbed. The story came from his lipsIn broken sentences.▼He wa« a policeman in Toronto and d he enlisted January lfi. 1916. lie lost j n a leg at a battle near Verdun. We 0 never heard from him except through j a I i the Canadian war office, which reported :I' he had been brought back to Canada Ij,j crippled and discharged. I gave Daniel.I another son, to the United States army j |1 October 24. I am proud of my boys.They are Americans; I’m an American;their mother is an America. For God'ss| sake, help me find my boy. whether he j -! is alive or dead.”I!3i And Anton Hein, horn in Germany, j .et Iis a true lue American.Sergeant Welch at once wrote a letter to the Canadian post asking them to trace the missing soldier.5 | mlt;I\f.IQ THE WAR HOME.-j Serg“ant\Welch is on the side of I 1 the Anton Heins as against the Indif-_ • f^rence that is in evidence among at” certain class that doesn’t know the definition of patriotism. It was a keendisappointment to the organizers ofthe American Alliance that a larger t ; attendance did not respond to the program offered last evening. Rev. v I Floyd H. Adams and Ex-Senator Gavit srave stirring American addresses at | t 1 the American Alliance meeting in the I j Chamber of Commerce last evening, but the attendance was not what it , should have beer |”Sergeant Welch an^ Attorney D. E. , ® Hoone will organize an American Al- *Mu |alliance at Hobart this evening:.nctf11*isti
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Hammond Lake County Times
Hammond, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 02, 1917
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Lake C.
IN, USA 16 Oct 2019
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