The marble memorial at the Seventh Street Complex in John Day, Oregon, may seem faint in contrast to that of our Nations capitol, but faint it is not. Laying 'neath the shadows of three flags over the dessert, the names of thrity-four of America's bravest men have been etched in stone and laid to rest, in this earth's finest sands of time.
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In 1918, Pvt. Henry Gambil of Mt. Vernon died in battle during the Great War. Gambil was born in 1893. Services were held at Prairie City Cemetery. He was 29.