This is what I love...it tells the whole story...no incredible rarity involved, unless you consider the value of being able to get inside the mind of someone who lived in a different time, and it cannot be done without little details like this. I enjoy especially the grand piano sitting outdoors (a not-unheard-of surprise encountered by many WWI soldiers) and the little shots of his girl and her mother, and brothers. She is the one who saved all this, and married him as noted in the clipping. The families were from Pittsburgh, and specifically the Northside and Bellevue neighborhoods. This man served early in the US part of the war, when ambulance and medical specialists were needed in foreign armies, who had been depleted over nearly 3 1/2 years of constant combat. Our boy was attached to a French colonial unit as you can see. He got the Croix de Guerre with 2 stars, and the US victory medal, and went home as one of the unsung heroes who made it alive and got back to the business of just 'living'.
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