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...soldier who could make an officer jump up & down with rage and then pin a medal on him. There was hardly a dogface in the 9th Division who didn't know him or hadn't heard of him. Few knew that he got his mail addressed to Pvt. Karl C. Warner. None knew that his real name was Karl Petusky...
...even in death he gave the Army a bad time. The Army was ready to bring his body back to the states, but could not locate any next-of-kin. Last week, after eleven months of looking, Pvt. Molotov's sister was found living in Manhattan. Said she: "Of course he is to come back. New York was his home. Karl loved this place...
...PVT. D. E. KELCH
Corporal Valtin's job in the 24th was gathering Joe Blow stories to be sent to U.S. hometown papers. Much of Children of Yesterday reads like an extended P.R.O. report: Pvt. So-and-So of Topeka, Kans. did this, Lieut. So-and-So of Valdosta, Ga. did that. So many hundreds (probably 500 to 1,000) of individuals are mentioned by rank, name and home address that at points the text must come almost straight from unit rosters...
...Pvt.) ROBERT SUBLETTE...