In honor of the 100th anniversary of WWI, area historian and former legislator Don Pischner will share the epic story of two local doughboys in a presentation at the library on Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m.
The vets were part of what came to be know as the “Lost Battalion,” 600 soldiers who were isolated by the Germans in a struggle that began on Oct. 2, 1918, and lasted for six days of “hell.”
Given the option by the Germans to “surrender or die” the surrounded men chose a third option.
Pischner will relate the experiences of Ruben Hudlow and Irvin Pischner, the speaker’s dad.
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