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From the Morgue
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
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Samuel A. Martin: A veteran of four wars
Posted Thursday, February 20, 2014, at 12:00 AM
I've been known to brag on my Uncle Jim Sanders' military service. My dad's younger brother served in three branches of the military -- Marines, Army and Air Force -- and in three wars -- World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
The other day, however, I found the obituary for Samuel A. Martin, who died before World War II, and yet served in four wars. Here's his story:
As indicated in his obituary, Samuel married three times. I was unable to find a death notice in the Missourian for his first wife, but I had better luck with wives two and three.
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