Soldiers Would Not
Join In Celebration. . . Wouldn’t Even Come and Get Free Lunch Prepared for
Them by Red Cross
Northeastern North Carolina’s heroes of the World War
refused to warm up to the Armistice Day celebration planned for the opening day
of the Elizabeth City Fair. There were not a dozen home soldiers in uniforms on
the fair grounds and hundreds of sandwiches, ice cream bricks, cakes and coffee
prepared by the Red Cross grew stale waiting for the soldiers.
Only two or three home boys in uniforms were noticeable in
the grand stand Tuesday afternoon when Col. Anderson of the War Department
presented a Distinguished Service Medal to Mrs. Mary Perry of Okisko, mother of
Corp. Seth Perry of the 119th Infantry, who was killed at
Bellecourt.
Returned soldiers seem to be adverse to anything that
reminds them of the European war.
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