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A soldier's story, told in letters home | The True Citizen

In August of 1940, well over a year before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 19 year-old Noah Allen Hickman of Girard enlisted in the United States Army.

The following are excerpts from letters sent to his family, including his parents, Noah A. Hickman and Mary Hickman and his sister Eva.

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