Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — ONLY DID HIS DUTY [ARTICLE]

ONLY DID HIS DUTY

New York, April s—Private Edgar Pennington, a rangy , .rancher from Altus, Okla., of Company K, 357th infantry regiment, today came home on the cruiser Frederick, wearing the D. S. C. “What did you get that for?” he was asked. “I dunno,” responded the rancher soldier. “Didn’t you do something?” “Did my duty,” was the sententious rejoinder. “Anything special?” “Nope, nope.” “Didn’t you capture any machine guns, rescue -any wounded men or,” “Oh, yes, rescued four officers.” „