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After nearly 100 years, this WWI soldier received his Medal of Honor

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War brings out the best and worst in its participants. One seldom knows what qualities one brings onto the battlefield until a situation arises when that service person has to make a fateful choice. In the case of William Shemin, World War I presented more than one call beyond duty.Born on Oct. 14, 1896, to Russian Jewish immigrants in Bayonne, New Jersey, Shemin played semi-professional baseball while attending the New York State Ranger School,…

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After nearly 100 years, this WWI soldier received his Medal of Honor

War brings out the best and worst in its participants. One seldom knows what qualities one brings onto the battlefield until a situation arises when that service person has to make a fateful choice. In the case of William Shemin, World War I presented more than one call beyond duty.Born on Oct. 14, 1896, to Russian Jewish immigrants in Bayonne, New Jersey, Shemin played semi-professional baseball while attending the New York State Ranger School,…

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ORWIGSBURG, PA — Treasurer Stacy Garrity honored the legacy of Private First Class Joseph William Morrison by returning a World War I Gold Star Mothers and Widows Pilgrimage Medal to his family during a ceremony at the Orwigsburg Free Public Library. Morrison, a Schuylkill County native who served with the 554th Army Ambulance Service, was killed in action on November 1, 1918, just ten days before the end of the war. The medal, considered unclai…

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