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John L. Barkley Quotes

1895–1966

John Lewis Barkley (August 28, 1895 – April 14, 1966) was a United States Army Medal of Honor recipient of World War I. Born in Blairstown, Missouri, near Holden, Barkley served as a Private First Class in Company K, 4th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division.

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From Revolutionary days on, whenever America got into trouble there'd always been a Barkley in on the fight.

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

General Sladen told me then that I could stand at ease, and I was altogether more comfortable physically than I'd been before. But I was still upset in my mind. I kept thinking how awful it would be if there'd been some mistake, and they'd picked out the wrong fellow to decorate.

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

I didn't like those intervals between fighting. They gave me too much time to think. And my thoughts were getting pretty black.

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

That afternoon we took Le Charmel. There weren't many of us left.

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

Everybody around me was going crazy about the war. I was under age- eighteen- but with as bad a case of war fever as the next fellow. Worse, probably. Because when America went into the war I'd made up my mind that for once I was going to do the same thing everybody else was doing.

Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

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