The Carlisle independent., 1919-05-08
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 GAIN \ F|GHT|HG
 CHANCE AT WORk
NOT ALL MEDAL WINNERS, BUT THOUSANDS BEAR MARKS
 OF HEROES.
RESPONSIBILITY IS CLEAR
Victory Loan Will Help to Assure Comfortable Future For
 Our Boys.
For weeks now we have been read

For weeks now we have been read ing day after day of the men who have been awarded Distinguished Service Crosses and Medals, Con gressfonal Medals and other deeora- tions. Some of our lads have won the proud medals Of the English, many have won the French CFotx de 0uerre
 The medal winners, all the way from the humblest private up to Gen. Pershing, will total several thousand men.
 Every man of them will have dons 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 q medal or a cross is not given for little things
 But there will be larger namber of men come back, hundreds and thousands of them are back now, who came out of the struggle bearing the marks of the conflict-an arm gone. a leg gone, blind, sArapnel scared, bayonet marked.
 Many of these men will wear no ribbon. but war has touched them nevertheless with the most character istic of battles decorations More than 50.000 of these men will be found in the American armies and their names will be carried on it's muster rolls. it's 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 fiendish 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
 
 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.
 p1tf 1%k %A T were not so fortunate. There are thousands who would have been re- garded, after other wars, as hopeless cripples, permanently disabled mere pensioners on the bounty of the Amer ican 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 Reason for 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 low much, must go towards the expense of making such payment as we can to those who did their best to pa, 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 expensese of the Government, a considerable sum from this last loan will be used in putting the wounded man and the disabled man in position to make his own living, to again play the part of an American citizen.