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CYRUS: Adair County history repeats in the two World Wars

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The Adair Country News, September 9, 1942
Sons Follow In Footsteps of Fathers

On September 13, 1917, just twenty-five years ago this month, two Adair County boys, Alonzo Holmes and U.S Harmon, joined the U.S. Army to serve in World War I.


On Tusday of next week, September 15, their sons, Edgar Holmes and Edwin Harmon, will leave together to serve their country in World War II. They were examined September 1, in Louisville, and found physically fit for the Armed Forces.

The Adair County News, April 5, 1944
History Repeats!

Time passes quickly and changes are few. Approximately eighty years ago two boys from this community, Milton Murrell and H.B. Ingram, were mess-mates in the Civil War fighting under General Hooker for the preservation of the Union.

This morning their grandsons, John N. Murrell, Jr. and Earl Ingram left Columbia together for Fort Thomas to be inducted into the the Armed Forces preparatory to serving their country as did their grandfathers. This is an unusual coincidence and proves again that history often repeats itself.

Of the four young men mentioned who left for service in World War Two, only three returned. S/Sgt. Edwin M. Harmon, a waist-gunner on a Flying Fortress, was killed in action in July 1943 when the plane he was aboard was shot down during a bombing run near Paris, France.

CYRUSCentral Ohio Bureau Chief


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