This seems to be an appropriate place to acknowledge
the sacrifice of George Shebley of Grass Valley,
California. When I was a child, Mr. Shebley lived
a couple of doors away on Mill Street. While
on sentry duty in France, he ate some berries, not realizing the enemy had released mustard gas the night before. So severe were his injuries that even as an elderly man, he was still eating what my mother termed “baby food.”

Robert Deward
Walnut Creek, California