Veteran of both world wars recalled
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As Glaydes Thompson Linn sat down to read the evening Bellefontaine Examineron May 24, 1918, her eyes gravitated to the small story at the top of the front page, titled “Three Boys in Graduating Class Join U.S. Army.”
She was barely out of high school herself and had become a new bride four weeks earlier. As she continued on, she read, “Raymond A. Linn, 629 E. Sandusky Ave., enlisted for the Coast Artillery. All but Linn will graduate next week from high school. They will leave June 3.”
Her own husband had enlisted at about noon that day but had not gotten around to telling his wife yet.
It was the first, but not the last time the veteran of both world wars who passed away in 1987, would surprise his family with unexpected news.
“She tried to get me out of it, but I told them not to try,” Linn would say when recounting what happened the night his wife learned the news. He added, “I knew I would have to go anyway.”
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