Noted: Among them was Marion Cranefield, one of the first Madison men killed in World War I. Cranefield was a University of Wisconsin-Madison junior when he joined the Army. He had tried to enlist the previous year to take part in the U.S. Army’s pursuit of Pancho Villa but was turned down because he was too thin. He wrote home from France, telling his family “it’s a wonderful country and worth dying for.”
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