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#Service Men in State TakePart in Numerous SpecialObservancesBv The Associated PressOklahoma celebrated with quiet patriotism today an Armistice day that found her sons again in uniform and on the march in distant lands 24 years after the end of the first World war.Much of the ceremony attendant upon previous celebrationswas lacking, many cities and towns preferring the simplicity of a minute cf silence as the only break in their war-time work.But there were the usual martial notes and a parade at Stillwater broke out a parade attraction that previously would havebeen impossible—650 marchingWAVES, women sailors in training there.Howitzer troops from Camp Gruber rolled up to Stillwater tojoin the WAVES and CowboyMovie Actor Gene Autry, who has deserted the films for the duration to fight in the army airforces. . iOther Camp Gruber units joined the line of marchers at Muskogee.Future army men—the cadets of Oklahoma Military Academy at Claremore—honored O. M. A.men killed in the present war with a memorial parade.Sailors and marines from naval installations at Norman joined
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Ada Weekly News
Ada, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Nov 12, 1942
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