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These “Military Service Record” questionnaires were “[C]omplied by the Department of Historical Records of the Connecticut State Council of Defense, State Library, Hartford, where [they are filed], as a permanent memorial of the deeds of Connecticut soldiers and sailors in the service of the federal, state and allied governments during American participation in the World War.

Clarence McGregor Thompson

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"I did not expect a picnic and it was what I looked for. The glory of war is all on canvas, but I therefore do not jump to the conclusion that there are not worse evils which only war can overcome."