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Fremont Park Dedicated In Honor of Dead InfantrymanBy It OOF It YOUNGFREMONT, O, March lt;R') They have no time for glory in theInfantry,But Fremont, and Ohio, yestcr- tday paid tribute to one footslogging infantryman who.se glory will forever le a part of America's heritage a .simple small-town ij-ry who, without thought of .self, gave his lif#* that his buddies might live.High army officers, Gov. Frank J. I ,a use he and 25,000 friends and neighbors dedicated a pa k and wimming jko1 named for Private Roger Young of nearby Green Springs, a member of Company O,1481 h Infantry, 37th Division, who was awarded the Congre.ssional Medal of Honor posthumously for gallantry above and beyond thecall of duty.It was a tribute too and Fuzz”Young would have liked this partof it to the everlasting glory of all men of the Infantry.The hero's mother, Mrs. NicholasYoung, told ttie reverent crowd of her son's medal of honor:I like to think that it belongsnot only to Roger and me but toall infantrymen who have given their lives lor their country.They’re all heroes the living aswell us the dead whether they’vebeen decorated or not.Private Young died in the jungles of New Georgia Island in the Solomons July 31, 1943.Ills platoon was pinned down bya hidden Japanese machine gun. Young was wounded in the first burst, of fire. But he spied the gun and inched his way toward the
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Van Wert Times Bulletin
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Mon, Mar 26, 1945
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