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from the movie houses. In 1918, there were 129 deaths in Rockingham, with 31 from influenza-pneumonia.
In February 1918 was held the National War Week of Song which took place in the Assembly Hall of the high school where many people stood in line for two hours to participate. A program of patriotic songs was prepared by Miss Alice Jackson, school music supervisor, led by Exner's five-piece orchestra. The walls of the old building rang to Tipperary and Over There. There was a meeting to raise 300,000 new Red Cross members in Vermont with George Wales in charge. The town was slow to organize but it came across in the face of the great need and the fact that with 100,000,000 people in the United States only 2,000,000 belonged to the Red Cross.
In the meantime everyone was planting gardens to aug- ment the dwindling food supply, costs of which had also increased 300% in the last 20 years. The same ten staples including flour, butter and potatoes which in July, 1916 had cost $9.69 were now $18.39. So everyone went to raising "garden sass," can- ning, drying and salting it for winter use. Food rationing began and people were pardoned for working in their gardens on Sunday. Directions were broadcast for canning without sugar. For about the only thing that was not rationed was garden food. Plots of beans and peas, corn, tomatoes and carrots appeared in every spare corner and along with the popular song "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier," was the one about "The Little Garden in My Back Yard." No longer did Morgan's Field cater to circuses and carnivals; girls and women donned middy blouses and blue serge bloomers, called themselves Farmerettes and went down on their knees in the dirt. It was a new experi- ence for many and there were doubtless many, like the author who, working desperately to help plant a government field of potatoes, was sharply reprimanded by the young man in charge for "slicing 'em up like French fries." The wide meadows, the farm of Quartus Morgan 100 years ago, and today built up with new houses, rang once more to the sound of hoes and spades, a sound which must have done old Quartus' heart good, wherever he was. The land was rented out in small plots, including school gardens, for Liberty Gardens and a waterpipe was run from M. H. Ray's house to 25 plots which actually made money for the town, after the bills for fertilizer and plowing were paid by Mr. Ray who acted as agent-to the magnificent sum of $27.87. However, one man who rented half a plot for $5.00, said that he harvested $60 worth of produce from it. Gardens also sprang up at Barber Park and the B.F.andS.R. Street Railroad had 15 acres of meadow land plowed and rented in quarter and half acre lots at $2 a plot. But the weather was not co-operative and on the 20th of that June, a heavy frost killed many sorely- needed crops. In 1919 the Morgan Field gardens became known as Victory Gardens as they were to be called 25 years
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later. Mr. Ray had the whole field prepared again with about 75 plots of 1-8 acre, renting for $10 although A. A. Halladay always used a whole acre.
The pinch of rationing was felt early that year of 1917 and there were substitutes for almost everything. E. S. Whitcomb was local food administrator. Bread was made from potato, rice and corn flour. Potatoes were used to "eke out" flour in pie crust, cakes, biscuits and souffles. Coffee was devised from toasted bread, called "crumb coffee" and endless "Trench Cakes" traveled to France, dark cakes made of almost every- thing except good flour and sugar. Margarine was on the market. Homemakers were hard put to serve attractive meals and many a family lived on stewed tomatoes every night for supper. But the ingenuity of people was wonderful and the old adage about necessity being the mother of invention was proven true many times as women used a liquid sweetening called "sugar drippings," molasses, corn and maple syrup, even as their mothers had done in another War fifty years before. Thrift stamps and sugar cards went into effect and weary house- keepers stood in line to receive their pound, two pounds or sometimes, half a pound, per person per week, most of the white sugar going overseas to the boys at St. Mihiel and Troyon. Sugar cards were abandoned in December, 1918 but the emer- gency was not over and they had to be resumed the next year. The papers shouted that waste was not only shameful, it was now also sinful. The Brattleboro Reformer of May 19, 1917 said that "waste of meat and fat is inexcusable. Every bit of lean meat can be used for soups, stews or with cereals; every spoonful of fat can be used in cooking, every bit of drippings and gravy saved for flavor and nourishment." This was nothing new to most Vermonters who had been brought up on the old motto, "waste not, want not." Wednesdays and Thursdays were "wheatless" days in restaurants, hotels and homes with no bread served. Milk rose in price in 1917. Because of the war and no help available on the farms, the soaring price of grain, farmers did an unusual thing; they went on strike. They threatened to sell their herds if they didn't get more for their milk, at least seven or eight cents at the railroad station. At the same time they were advised that they were wasting man power; to use more horses per man; to exchange work, plan ahead and eliminate waste effort. Tires and gasoline were rationed and no one got new shoes for their cars which were stopped and questioned concerning "necessary travling". Sunday use of cars was forbidden and probably more than one bride, like the author, spent a weary Sabbath cooped up in a strange hotel waiting for Monday morning.
Knitting needles flashed like mad everywhere as sweaters, socks, scarves and helmets were turned out and turned in to the Red Cross Headquarters, blue by the Navy League, khaki
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for the soldiers. Many a long winter evening was spent, with high-laced boots propped against the nickel railing of the parlor heater, purling and knitting as sleeveless sweaters and gloves grew under the long needles. And if you couldn't turn a heel when you got to it, you could always call a sock a wrister! There was quite a heated argument concerning knitting in church and pastors in Rutland and Boston finally allowed such worthy occu- pation but Bellows Falls frowned upon it. Bellows Falls women also helped make 300,000 garments for refugees in France and Belgium. The old appellation of Gretna Green began to appear again as the many war weddings preceded the boys' departure for France. In December, 1917 there were 107 local weddings- only three of which were local couples. Leather prices were down and shoe prices up. Newspapers cried that millions of hides were on the market, intended to cost the tanners up to 40 and 50 cents which he could not get for 25 cents. They called it the "leather conspiracy" and howled in glee when it collapsed as demands from the army didn't make up the difference. Many people advocated that the government step in even as it had with coal and food.
Herbert Hoover, U. S. Food Administrator, deplored any person who made money on government jobs. He called it socialism, rather a new word then. Coal was a commodity which must be specially budgeted and dealers listed the number of tons on hand. Pledge cards were sent out, people promising to waste neither food nor coal. No coal was to be used before November nor after May first unless the house dropped to below 60 degrees. Wood was to be used wherever possible and small kerosene heaters, less coal in the stove and doing all cooking for the day at once, were "musts." At least once in 1918 there was no school in the grades because of no coal. O. M. Baker, lawyer, learned a trick or two during those days which, he said, he would always utilize. Instead of burning his raked- up leaves in the autumn, he stored them in the cellar and spread them on top of his coal fire, saving fuel. And as if to mock the sorely tried nation, the winter of 1917-1918 will always be re- membered for its severe cold and deep snow which started falling the first of December with two feet on the level and temperatures of 16-30° below each morning for days at a time. For three days it never got above 10 degrees at noon. Saxtons River registered 52° below and many a barn window in Rockingham never lost its ice all winter. In Montpelier it was 60° below one morning after Christmas and the trolley cars froze up. The coal supplies of all the dealers in Bellows Falls, lumped together, could not meet the demands for more than six days during one crucial period. One man, left with only a day's supply, could not buy a pound of coal anywhere. Saxtons River schools had only a week's supply and closed. The churches there had none at all and neither did the dealers. Each Mon-
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day became a holiday to save fuel and there were no dances anymore. But, on the bright side, Bellows Falls schools were the only 100% Thrift Stamp schools in Vermont .
There were many letters printed in the papers from boys in France, many stories told and re-told. The brave stories of all of them could not be used here but they have lived on in the hearts of their families and friends. Among them were Rev. A. C. Wilson of Emmanuel Church who served with the YMCA in France and became a great favorite with the boys who called him "Dad" and many were the testimonials to the popularity at the "Y." Bert C. Merriam, former superintendent of schools, sailed for France in September, 1917 with 40 secretaries of YMCA work, to be with the allied soldiers. Edgar A. Guild, many years a clerk in the Bellows Falls Savings Institution, resigned in November, 1918, to go to France also in this same work. There is the strange tale of how Lt. A. C. MacDonald captured 48 Huns single-handed and took his prisoners into camp while he lay on a stretcher, carried by the Germans who had surren- dered at the point of their captor's empty pistol because "they were glad to be taken prisoners." Maybe it was the shock that made MacDonald stretcher material! There were tall tales sent home about J. H. "Josh" Blakely who worked valiantly with the motor transport in France but who moved about that country so fast that none of his townsfolk ever caught up with him, using, as one of them said, "the hustle" that he employed "rolling logs down Fall Mountain." There was the letter mailed to D. P. "Danny" Thompson while he was overseas and which he received after he came home with the notation "Killed in Action" in the corner. There was the sad little package which came to the mother of Frank Griffin in 1924 with the possessions of her son, sent from the storage center in Hoboken, N. Y. There were tales of the Red Cross Englishman who made tea each day with his entire ration of 1/2 pint of water so no one would steal it, using it sometimes to shave and bathe in also while some of the English Tommies were said to draw the water from their cars, bathe in it and put it back. Theaters put on such rabble-rousing pictures as The Beast of Berlin and Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was in Mothers of France which called forth "thunderous applause." Bertha Swift and her contemporaries at the piano pounded out such tear jerkers as Joan of Arc, Laddie in Khaki and The Long, Long Trail.
Armistice Day was heralded by all the mill whistles scream- ing wildly at 4 a. m. on November 11, 1918, followed by the mad pealing of every church bell in town. Bells, whistles, people, all went mad. No one did much business in town that day and a mammoth parade, a mile and a half long including 1,000 school children wound hilariously through the streets. At night great bonfires in the Square cast flickering shadows on relieved and happy faces of dancers who capered over the trolley tracks and
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made shambles of the sidewalks even as their fathers and grand- fathers had done with the old cannon after the battle of Gettysburg in that same Square. But the greatest demonstration in the history of the town at that time, was given the next May to the boys who had come home on the Leviathan and the Mauretania when another parade that made the first one look like a grass snake beside a python, took place. On the 10th of May the boys were honored with banquets, speeches and a concert, dancing and vaudeville. Invitations were sent out to 250 servicemen in Rockingham and surrounding towns, to be guests of the town on that day which turned out to be cold and rainy but which could not dampen the spirits of the 2,000 people in the parade including 180 soldiers and sailors. The boys were home to stay and what mattered the weather! Flags of all kinds hung limply in the drizzle. The parade took two hours to pass the Arch Bridge and represented every organization in town, civic groups, the Liberty Gardeners, the sellers of bonds, Red Cross workers and everyone who had done their share in any way while the boys were doing theirs. After the parade the Opera House was jammed to the steps as people elbowed their way in to hear Col. A. F. Foote of the 104th Regiment,26th Division and Chaplain Chauncey Adams of the 101st Ammunition Train. At night a ten-piece orchestra livened up the turkey supper in the Armory for 206 people. Thanksgiving Day was designated as War Victory Day that year. The men had come back, as Coningsby Dawson of the Canadian Army, writing in McClure's magazine said, "to man the trenches of a kinder social order and to follow the barrage across no man's land in pursuit of a new heaven and a new earth." Only the years could tell if they found them.
The local "minute men" who gave unstintingly of their time and service through the war, were rewarded with "certi- ficates of honorable discharge" from the Federal Government, signed by local chairman Rev. John C. Prince and President Woodrow Wilson. These "minute men" included W. C. Bel- knap, Dr. James S. Hill, Rev. A. C. Wilson, C. W. Osgood, Dr. J. H. Blodgett, Judge Warner Graham, Rev. J. W. Chesbro and H. Demotte Perry "for use of his playhouse." In April, 1919, as part of the Victory Loan Drive, one of the four Victory Loan Trains touring New England was at the Bellows Falls depot, loaded with war relics of all kinds including every imple- ment used in the war. This was viewed by 3,000 people in- cluding a long parade of school children. The 45 members of Co. M, Voluntary Militia, disbanded in 1919. After the War, the American Legion dropped all military titles except for those still in military service. Following is the list of 565 men and women compiled from index cards kept by the late L. S. Hayes during W. W. I. Mr. Hayes' practice was to make a card of every person who was in any way connected with this town or vicinity, making, as he said "as a rule more cards rather than
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less of the boys who might legitimately be credited to this town," thus making a comprehensive and complete record.
Adams, Clarence R.
Breen, Francis J. .
Adams, Clyde H.
Breen, John C.
Adams, George A.
Bresland Elbert G.
Adams, Gerald E.
Brickley, Thomas J.
Adams, Walter F.
Brough, George T.
Aggelakis Nicholas P.
Brown, Rolland E.
Agostino, Frank
Bugbee, George H.
Aldrich, Duane G.
Burch, Charles J.
Ames, Ariel A.
Burr, F. H.
Anderson, Arthur
Cady, Harold H.
Andosca, Antonio
Cahalane, Francis N.
*Aumond, Francis
Campbell, Henry
Aumond, J. Baptiste
*Caputo, Achillo
Aumond, Zotique
Carroll, Jeremiah J.
Babbitt, Donald
Carroll, Thomas
Babcock, Bruce D.
Carroll, W. J.
Baker, Ralph A.
Carney, Willam C.
Barber, Edward
Carter, Oscar
Bardella, Donald H.
Caskins, William Jerry
Barry, Edward C.
Cass, William M.
Barry, H. J.
Cenate, Jesse
Barry, J. J.
Chamberlain, Charles D.
Barry, John
*Chamberlain, Harlan Chandler, Earle F.
Barry, Maurice J.
Barry, William F.
*Cheney, H. T. Chressanthis, Nicholas D.
Baxter, William P.
Clark, C. E.
Bean, M. G.
Clark, Newell C.
Beam, Allen
Clark, R. E.
Bean, Ralph R.
Clark, Ronald L.
Bean, Roy E.
Cleary, Frank T.
Bean, Wilfred J.
Cleary, John Timothy
Beaudoin, Emil
Coffey, Harold
Bedeau, Peter
Collins, John M.
Belknap, Claude J
Condon, Edward
Belknap, Gordon S.
Condon, George
Belknap, Lindsey
Connors, Daniel
Belknap, Paul C
Connors, John E.
Bertolino, John
Coonerty, Edward
Beto, Lewis H.
Corning, John W.
Bisbee, J B., Jr.
Costin, Maurice M.
Blake, Henry W.
*Cota, Ernest E.
Cray, Charles E.
Cray, Edward J.
Blake Patrick Joseph
Cray, Eugene
Blake, Peter T.
Cray, Eugene J., Dr.
Blanchard, Charles E.
Blodgett, Irving
Cray, Gerald J.
Bodine, Clarence
Cray, James
Bodine, Wilfred
Cray, John H. Crowley, Thomas J.
Cushion, Albert L.
Cushing, Earl
Cushing, William E.
Bowen, Floyd B.
Custer, Marshall
Bowen, W. D.,Dr.
Cutler, Ray
Brackett, Grover S.
Cyrs, William H.
Bradish, Robert F.
Damon, Charles P.
Blood, Welcome
Cray, Henry D.
Bolles, Carlton S.
Boseley, Edmond
Boucher, Henry J. Bowen Berton E.
Cray, Eugene Joseph
Blake, James W.
Blake, John M.
Bartlett, Niles
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Damon, Melvin H.
Frenette, Hector J.
Davidson, David M.
Davidson, John G.
Davis, Harry R. Dean, William H.
*Fuller, Walter J. Furkee, Joseph Gale, Arthur R. Gallagher, Joseph Gallert, Curtis A.
Delaney, John
Delill, Joseph C.
Gammon, Gordon C.
DeMond, Fred W.
Gammon, Leonard M.
DeMuzio, Richard Dickinson, George H. Dillingham, Albert
Gibson, Elvin C.
Doe, Charles
Gill, Walter
Donegan, William F.
Gillis, Charles J.
Donnelly, L. G. Doucette, James H.
Godsoe, George
Doucoumes, George J.
Golsher, Harry
Dowlin, Guy M.
Gordon, Fred O.
Doyle, Joseph K. Doyle, Patrick C. Duhaine, Albert E.
Gorman, John J. Gottardi, Henry
Dunlap, John N.
*Gourley, Frank J. Graham, Francis Graham, George L.
Duquette, Philip Durling, Ray B.
Eastman, Joseph H.
Eddy, Harold M.
Ellison, Harry
Elwell, Alvara
Grignon, Dana P.
Emerson, George E.
Grignon, Joseph A.
Emerson, Perley
Grignon, Philias A.
Enwright, Thomas
Griswold, Raymond
Evans, Alfred E.
Guild, Charles F. Gunn, Gilman C.
Fahey, John J. Fair, Clifford B.
Fallon, James B.
Farnsworth, Benjamin
Farnsworth, James F.
Hamilton, E. A.
Hammond, N. R.
Hankard, Edward J.
Hankard, John J.
Harris, R. L. Hartnett, John J.
Haselton, Ernest E.
Haskins, Hugh E.
Haskins, William J.
Hassett, H. C.
Hastings Clarence V Hayes, Robert C.
Fletcher, Allen
Hayes, William E.
Haynes, Charles S.
Holden, William A.
Holmes, W. C.
Homand, Alfred L.
Homand, Augustine C.
Homand, Francis Homand, Lester
Hooper, Charles Howard, Edward
Hurlburt, Charles N.
Fredette, E. R.
Freeman, Herbert L. Frenette, Albert
Hutchins, Pearl L. Jancewicz, Edward J. Jancewicz, Juget
*Finlayson, Allan Finlayson, Allan D., Dr. Fitzgerald, Ernest A. Fitzgerald, Frank Fitzgerald, George Bernard Flavin, John P. Fleming, Henry S.
Guyette, Fred C. Hall, George Hallenborg, Charles E.
Farnsworth, Malcolm Farr, Glen
*Fenton, Joseph J., Jr. Finkelstein, Benjamin S.
*Griffin, Francis J. Griffin John J. Griffin Patrick Grignon, Claude H.
Gorman, Edward F.
Dunbar, David
Gazaushi, Cyprian
Gilbert, Ozzie
Glynn, Paul W.
Fletcher, J. Grover Flint, J. Wyman, Jr Flynn, Eugene F. Folsom, Charles E. Fontaine, Amedee A. Fontaine, Edmund Fontaine, Gordon C. Fontaine, Melvin T. Formica, Constanzo Frazier, Thomas F.
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Jenkins, Miss Grace Johnson, Andrew J. Johnson, Charles Jurkoic, Antoni
Lorange, Emo Louanis, Fred S.
Luce, Robert
Lovett, Jack
*Karveles, Aniceta
Lufkin, Arthur L.
Lynch, Edward J.
Lynch, Harry W.
Lynch, William S.
Keefe, John J.
Lyons, Joseph
Keefe, Miss Mary
MacCartney, H.
Keefe, Patrick J.
MacDonald, A. C.
Keefe, William J.
MacDonald, Dana
Keefe, William Timothy
Mackenzie, Peter
Kelley, John
Macleod, D. W.
Kelley, Michael J.
Macleod, John
Kelley, Paul A.
MacLeod, Kenneth
Kendall, Clifton W.
Mack, Alphonso B.
Magar, George
Kenney, William
Mahoney, A. J.
Kent, Ernest
Mahoney, John J.
Mandigo, Clarence L.
*King, Gerald C.
Manning, Michael J.
Kingsbury, Everett G.
Marlow, Benny
Kiniry, Alfred
Martin, Fred M.
Massucco, John D. Dr.
Kirkland, Edward C.
Masterson, L. G.
Kizka, William
Matsikas, Steve P.
Knight, LeRoy, Dr.
Mayson, Adelbert A.
Knight, Ralph M., Dr.
McAuliffe, John W.
Knight, Selden P.
McCarthy, James J.
Labonite, Phillippe
McCarty, William A.
Ladd, Frank M.
McCauley, Clyde
LaFrancois, Oliver
McDonald, C. E.
Lake, Dean H.
McDonald, James H., Jr.
Larizza, Rossario
McDonald, John J.
LaRose, Walter
McDonald, William E.
Lathrop, Chauncey
McGee, Joseph
Lawlor, Edward J., Jr.
McGowan, Elton D.
McGreen, David J.
McGreen, Louis
McMahon, William
Mehl, Jacob
Merritt, Charles
Merritt, L. R.
Miller, Frank
Miller, Mayer
Leen, Edward J. Leen, Leo M.
*Millerick, Edward Miner, Robert
Montgomery, Fred W.
Leonard, Lawrence
Montgomery, J. L.
Moraski, Anthony
Moore, Raymond H.
Morris, Felix L. Mousley, Leon
Moynihan, Michael
Moynihan, Roger Munsell, William H.
Murphy Charles J. Murray, Henry
Kennedy, Timothy T.
Kenney, Thomas P.
Magoon, A. A.
*King, Chauncey King, Frederick C.
Mandigo, Gardell E.
Kingsbury, Rufus
Marlow, Clarence
Kiniry, Raymond A.
Lawlor, John, Dr.
Lawton, Frank A.
*Lawton, Fred L.
*Lawton, Paul R. Leach, Herbert A. Leach, W. E. Lee, Robert A. Leeman, Roy A.
Leonard, E. Stone
Leonard Richard S. Lewis, Vincent Earl *Lillie Harry A. Lillie, Richard Lindstrom, Claude J. Liston, A. C., Dr. Lober, Irving W. *Locke, A. F., Capt. Longuiel, Lloyd H.
Keane, James A. Keefe, James R. Keefe, John F.
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Raymond, Leo Raymond, William L. Reed Asa S.
Reed, Lewis O. Regan, James
Remsyeivski, Joseph
Reynolds, Edward Joseph
Reynolds, Jackson D.
Revoir, Arthur
Rice, Harry E.
Rice, Richard G
Riley, Bernard L., Dr.
Riley, Edward
Riley John P. Jr.
Robara, Frederick
Robinson, Byron A.
Rogers, Harold E.
Rogers, William
Rowell Lawrence C.
Ryder, Daniel F.
Sanborn, Elmer S.
Page, Eugene Francis
Sanborn, Waldo M.
Sanders, James P.
Scurlettis Dennis
Seavers, L. G.
Sharkey, Joseph O.
Parker, Alvin D.
Shaughnessey, Fred
Parker, Edward
Shaw, Walter S
Parker, Hugh
Shea, Edward F.
Sheehan, James
Sheehan, Patrick
Sherman, Arthur J.
Shumway Bryan
Shuttleworth, E. O., Col.
Simonds G W
Simonds, Raymond C
Simonds, Roland F.
Slattery, James F.
Slattery, John
Slattery, Stephen E.
Slayton Robert E.
Sloane, John
Smith, Clarence Smith, L. G.
Smith, Paul
Smith, Perley
Smith, Ralph
Smith, Wade
Snow, Ernest L.
Snow, Fletcher P. Space, Victor A. Spaulding, Edward A.
Spofford, Earl Scott
Spofford, Karl T.
Stacey, Harry W. Stack, George A.
*Stack, Michael Stapleton, Edmond J. Stapleton, James H. Starks, Everettt Steele, James Stevens, Nile
Nash, Leo T Neilson, Harold Newell, Austin L. Nichols, Floyd Nichols, William L. O'Brien E. P.
O'Brien, Thomas J. *O'Brien, William F. 'Brien, William L. O'Connor, Bryan J. O'Connor Edward
O'Donnell, John O'Donnell, Maurice ODonnell, Thomas H. Olliffe, Arthur J Orcutt, James L.
*Osgood, Sidney E. Oski, Felix W.
*Owens, Edward Owens, Fred F. Owens, Kenneth
Page, George Everett Page, M. A. Palmer, Joseph Pariseau, Henry
Parker, Robert
Patnode, Alfred S.
Pattee, George W.
Patterson, Albert H.
Patterson, Charles D.
Patterson, Richard H. Payne, G. A. Payson, George
Peck, Roy E. Pecor, Albert H. Pellerin, Edward Peno, Ralph Pension, John
Pershilo, Isiador Pheur, J. P. Pierce, Herbert R.
*Pierce, William G. Pierrick, Albert Plumb, Grover Porter, Elton S. Potter John Powers, Guy Powers, Ray
Pratt, Earl W Prescott, Carl Prescott, George E
Priest, Earl H. Provost, Robert *Pyne, Albert N. Rafter, Edward Rafter, William Ramsey, James Ramsey, Ralph
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Stickney, Mrs. H. E.
Usher, W. P.
Stickney, H. E.
Vancour, Jed V.
Stilwell Harold T.
Vayo, Edward F.
St. Lawrence, Alfred E.
Vershilo, Isador
Stockford, Charles W.
Walsh, John E.
Stoodley, George C.
Walsh, Thomas Francis
Stoodley, Roland J.
Walsh, Thomas J.
Strong, John H.
*Ward, Lillian
Sullivan, Hugh W.
Weiber, George
Sweet, Lawrence M.
Welch, Gladwin W.
Switzer, Karl W.
Welch, Henry J.
Switzer, Pearl D.
Welch, Robert
Sylvester, G. A.
Wendall, Fred
Szyszko, Zygmut
Weston, Melvin F.
Tatro, Eugene
White, Raymond J.
Tatro, Ray
Whytlaw, Graeme
Taylor, John
Wilcox, Rial E.
Tenney, Colin J.
Wiley, George
Tenney, Daniel H.
Wilkinson, Harold
Tenney, James W.
Willard, Clyde
Thayer, Glen D.
Willard, Ralph A.
Thayer, Paul W.
Williams, A.
Theg, Albert H.
Williams, G. W.
Thompson, Arthur H.
Williams, John B.
Thompson, Daniel P.
Willis, Allan S.
Thompson, F. L.
Wilson, Ralph
Thompson, George H.
. Wolfe, J. M.
Tidd, Charles W.
Wolfel, Anton P.
Tinker, Lawrence
Wright, Clarence E.
Tolin, Carroll G.
Wright, David B.
Trask, Everett E.
Wright, Herman J.
Trott, George
*Wright, N. A.
Tupper, Horace B.
Wylde, William
Turner, William E.
Young, Arthur L.
Twiss, C. J.
Young, Frank X.
Tyman, Martin
Zawacki, Leon
Upham, Francis Bowen
Usher, James W.
*Died in Service
WORLD WAR II
Vermont, in 1941, recognized a state of war several weeks before it was formally declared as such, Vermont legislators considering it already a "shooting war." The Vermont National Guard was again one of the first to be called up but until Presi- dent Roosevelt ordered the U. S. Navy to "take aggressive measures" against the German submarines which he charged had violated international law, Vermont could not pay noncom- missioned men in the Armed Forces ten dollars a day for each of their first twelve months in service as voted in 1941. How- ever, the legislature resolved that "armed conflict" should be construed as a state of national emergency-and the V.N.G. began to draw regular pay. This was Vermont's own special declaration of war on Germany several weeks before Pearl Harbor. (Boston Globe, 1953.) And again, it was Co. E which left for the front at the first sound of war. So for the second time in less than 25 years, the war clouds gathered grim
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