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.

— John L. Barkley Scarlet Fields: The Combat Memoir of a World War I Medal of Honor Hero (1930)

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