Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1918 — FATHER FINDS HERO SON [ARTICLE]

FATHER FINDS HERO SON

Discovers Him in Bunch of Yanks Sent Home to Recovej* From Wounds. Des Moines, la.—J. B. Burns saw a crowd around an ambulance at a railway station, and crossed the street to see the excitement. He saw a bunch of wounded Yanks being loaded into ambulances for Fort. Des Moines. In one of the ambulances he saw. big as life, bls son “Jimmie.” “Hello dad,” shouted the wounded Yank, happy despite the fact that he had left one leg “somewhere in France.” “Hello, son," shouted the excited father In return. Then he hurried home to tell the folks.