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From BATTERY D ASSOCIATION
1401 Fairfax Trafficway
Kansas City, Kansas
Eddie Meisburger, Publicity Chairman
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NOTE TO EDITOR: You may desire to contact the person
further details concerning his Battery connection.
Serving as a guard of honor to the President in the Inaugural
parade and having breakfast with him as his guest at the Mayflower Hotel
the morning of the parade will be
(Name of any man in a locality who was a member of Battery D, 129th Field
Artillery.)
He is one of approximately 100 former members of the field
artillery unit commanded in France in World War I by the then Captain Harry S.
Truman, Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 35th Div. Paying their own
expense, as many members of the Battery D association as can walk, are
journeying to Washington Inaugural Week to participate in several functions
at the invitation of the President.
In addition to the breakfast and the guard of honor function in
the parade, which will be restricted to Battery D members, other events to
which they have been invited are the Inaugural Ball, the Inaugural reception
and a cocktail party at which Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder will
be host.
Most of the D Battery men, including some with wives and other
relatives, will leave Kansas City the night of January 17 on special Pullmans.
Those coming from the West will join the party at Kansas City. Others will
be taken aboard at St. Louis and other points to the East. The delegation
will reach Washington the morning of Jan. 19 and the return trip will be
started the night of Jan. 21.
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