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• .we contacted^.the '-remainder.' of our .onett, .weiit .to- a :^firkt - aid: station and were examined by the doctor: there; He told• me I should ..have been in a hospital; -a lotig time ago. He put' a tag on:my : blouse marked “Base Hospitat5 - _ ' ':'. •'.' •It-Sofwe;\s'tartlt;sdout ’bn foot- tot ^ the hospital- We didn't-have much Tdclc JgetiihglalHa e.:is-all^e'tri?-‘fic.'ivas going up-to -the'■front.' ■ -'• -j Flag' 'Down .TruckFinally, after -a-couple of hours,. we. 'flagged down a ■ big truck gp-■mg. 'our ’ way; He gavetus. a. ri.de to . the . 77-tii -. Field Hospital that-:hadn’t, been there very long.'We ■wete taken, to an evacuation hos-pitaltolt, was; how after midnight and ^oy. 2. On iHbv.: 4th, we reach-,.ed'.'-Base'Hpsp.itar No. ,68 at .Mars-:$uri AUivb, where I was'hospitaliz-,ed: until fcherfirst part of February1 A couple of; days after-I entered this, hospital,;.a German hospital unit-came' to the hospital withme wheh I left -home . .was .to -see his - birthplace;, and visit : ins relatives '..in/'Ireland. ..-Sgt's:; e.armody, O’Brien.:' ahd myself ihade plans to. risit Ireland ween ;we. got'a..furlough.; .We weren’t, fortunate ' . :npu'gh'.-.;'ib.'; be'dbletoto'..goto'$gL'ICar-mody was: wounded, -in. action -on the Meuse'TArgonneAfemtivas;;.w.er« O’Brien • and Jmyseifto '. -to;: v vto:• '•*'_.. •••■■ v, :.v.i.rv’r '.* ' v~■ 'v*• .v• •■ Smcerel Clement 01 Fitzpatrick . .v.'-v-7• .Two -well known Iowa State. Unb vbrsity specialists,:. E. P. (Dutch) Sylwester. and Harold Gunderson, will be, oa hand tor a weed and insect control ..clinic in Emmetsburg
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Reporter Democrat
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Tue, Dec 31, 1968
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