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...What have you got in your locker?" cried a heckler. The audience guffawed. The Senator asked the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. Chairman Raskob pleaded with the crowd to behave...
...abroad with General Pershing. Theodore Roosevelt asked him to take as privates his sons Theodore Jr. and Archibald, adding: "If I were physically fit, instead of old and heavy and stiff, I should myself ask to go under you in any capacity down to and including a sergeant; but I suppose I could not do work you would consider worth while in the fighting line (my only line) in a lower grade than brigade commander...
...Pittstown, Pa., coal mines at 17, stocky, square-faced, blue-eyed Faustin E. Wirkus enlisted in the Marine Corps, was shipped to Haiti in 1917 as a sergeant. While serving at the tiny outpost of Anse à Gallet, he saw a hard-boiled tax collector drag in a big black Haitian woman who had defied the law. She said she was Queen Timemenne of La Gonave. Sergeant Wirkus smoothed out her troubles, got her free...
...pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months. The party did not bother to send out patrols. One private shinnied up the pole with a pair of pliers in his teeth, others stretched new wire along the ground. Sergeant Arthur M. Palrang, in the manner of sergeants directing operations, sat on his mule...
With half the Marine patrol dead, Sergeant Palrang ordered Private Mack Hutcherson to crawl back, try to get reinforcements. He never got through - two bullets laid him out with a shattered...