Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-13
|What These Words Reveal in Cita.
 lions of American Fighters, and What They Should Mean to All American Citizens.

All American Citizens.
 Picture this scene for yourself, the hot day in July, the heat waves danc- {ing over the wheat fields, where tho delayed harvest had turned the stand ling wheat, dry. brown. and dead:
 After his platoon had g; med its objective along railroad embank. ment, Private Dilboy, accon panyine his platoon leader to reconnoiter the pround beyond, was suddenly fire( npon by an enemy machine gun from one hundred yards. From standing positon on the railroad track fully l exposed to view. he opened fire at once, but failing to silence the gun rushed forward with his bayonel fixed. through wheat field to tho gun emplacement, falling within ,: l yards of the gun with his riglt leg nearly severed above the knee, and l with several bullets in his body with undaunted courage, he continued tC l fire into the emplacement from a prone position, killing two of the en- l emy and dispersing the rest of the crew.
 So reads the brief citation of an American private, who died in the l wheat field to the east of Belleau Wood July IS, 1918.
 For conspicuous gallantry and in- trepidity above and beyond the call runs the citation.
 Above and Beyond the Call of 1 Duty" How many times that sen tence has appeared in the records of the American fighting man in France Private Dilboy charged through d slashing fire of machine gun bullets, ripped and torn with steel slugs, | bayonet fixed. He was shot well nigh to bits when he stopped but he still had it in him to kill two Ger mans. And he fell face to the Hun machine gun. Something Above | and Beyond the Call of Duty" carried that American private soldier straight to his death.
 His Life for Friends. Here is another brief citation of a Californian who died as man and American should:
 Above and Beyond the Call of Duty and there were scores of them, like Corporal Roberts drowned m the shell hole of MOntrebeau Woods- October 4, 191S Willie Sand lin of Hayden, Kentucky, won his ci- tatlon on Septemebr 26, in Bois de Forges. Says the report:
 Sergeant Sandlin showed con- splcuous gallantry in action at Bois de Forges by advancing alone di- rectly on a machine gun nest which was holding up the line with it's fire lie killed the crew with a grenade ana enabled the line to advance Later in the day Sergeant Sandlin attacked alone and put out of action two other machine gun nests, setting splendid example of bravery and coolness to his men,"
 Above and Beyond the Call o1 Duty. That was the manner ill Whlch the Americans fought anG dled over in France
 Men From Midwest.
 mere was first lieutenant from tue llttle city of Salina. Kansas, Lieut. ueofge Robb was in action near Sech. aull' France, September 29-3O, last
 'N teo oCNCICly DN nlachlne-sun fire, but had to be or. aereo back from his platoon to the utesshg station before he would go ne was back within 45 minutes, or uu'y all night, establishing outposts inspecting his lines. At daybreak ht "a9 agaln wounded. Later in the day bursting shell added two more Z Toulds wv, to those he had suffered t: rhis smell killed his commanding of as a,eei ana the other two lieutenant! ol ms company so Lieut.. Ross stayed Un a lne job. He was the sort of al @ a,n,erlcan who felt something "Abov anu heyond the Call of Duty"
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