Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1919-05-01
SCAR BEARERS TO
+. GAIN A FIGHTING
CHANGE At WORK
NOT ALL MEDAL WINNERS, BUT
THOUSANDS BEAR MARKS
or HEROES.
RESPONSIBILITY IS CLEAR
Victory Loan VIII Help 70 Assure
Comfortable Future For
Our Boys.

For weeks now we have been read
ing day after day Of the men who
have been awarded Distinguished
Service Crosses and Medals. Con-
gressional Medals and other decora-
tons. Some Of our lads have won the
proud medals Of the English, many
have won the French Croix de Guerre.
The medal winners. all the way
from the humblest private up to Gen.
Pershing, viii total several thousand
men.
Every man Of them will have done
something that is worth while IN the
eyes Of their comrades, in the eyes OF
the peoples, in the eyes Of the Allied
Governments. The man who knows
will tell you that a medal or a cross
is not given for little things.
But there will be a larger number
Of men come back, hundreds and
thousands of them are back now, who
came out Of the struggle bearing the
marks Of the confict-an arm gone,
a leg gone, blind, shrapnel SCARED.
bayOnet marked
Many Of these men viii wear no
ribbon, but war has touched them
nevertheless with the most character
istic Of battles decorations. More
than $4,000 Of these men will be found
IN the American armies and their
names will be carried on its muster
rolls, its hospital records.
The scar.Bearer.
These are the Scar Bearers, the
wounded men, Not a man Of them
but faced death in all the scores Of
forms Of the most devilish war in his
tory. Every man of them has been
exposed to death in all of the forms
that the dendish ingenuity of the
Germans could devise.
They took the ordinary and the ex-
traordinary chances OF war. as they
came. It was their misfortune to be
struck down, some Of them without
having their chance at the foe, others
after they had left their mark upon
men Of the Kaiser.
There are thousands OF these men
who will not be permanently disabled.
In a few weeks after receiving their
wounds they were back in the ranks.
Many Of the men listed as wounded
went back into the combat units, were
wounded again and again, and again
went back Many OF these have
been mustered out and are back in
civilian life, holding down their Jobs
and asking no odds Of any man.
But there are other thousands who
were not so fortunate. There are
thousands who would have been re-
Earded, after other wars. as hopeless
cripples, permanently disabled. mere
pensioners on the bounty Of the Amer
tcan people. But things have changed
since the other wars fought by Amer
lea. The wounded man, the disabled
man, is to have his chance this time.
a Reaoon fer Last Loan.
This is one Of the things to be kept
IN mind during the campaign for the
Victory Liberty loan. Much Of this
loan, we cannot tell how much. must
go towards The expense of making
such payment a5 we can TO those vino
did their best to pa5 the price Of
world freedom from the Prussian
menace.
While some Of the money may be
used for military needs, some for the
ordinary and extraordinary expenses
OF the Government a considerable
sum from this last loan viii be used
IN putting the wpunded man and the
disabled man in position to make
his own living, to again play the part
Of an American citizen.