Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Salute to Veterans from My Home Town



World War II veteran Clyde Hatcher, Arkansas City, Kansas >>>


<<< Col. Paul Cannady, posthumous: inducted into Kansas National Guard Hall of Fame, Nov. 2, 2008. Joined U.S. troops under Gen. Pershing, going after Pancho Villa at the Mexican border in 1916, served in World War I and World War II, a total of 31 years in the Kansas Army National Guard. He is shown at the Haskell Indian School, Lawrence, KS, 1930, and was the father of eighty-eight year-old Arkansas City resident Genova J. Brister.

Information from Arkansas City Traveler, "Kansas native gets his due WWI veteran inducted into state National Guard Hall of Fame" By FOSS FARRAR Traveler Staff Writer reporter@arkcity.net Photo by Alex Gambill