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RELIGIOUS MEDAL DESIGNED FOR INFANTRY

FORT ORD, CALIF. -- THIS MEDAL OF ST. MAURICE,

PATRON OF INFANTRYMEN, WAS DESIGNED BY COL.

FRANKLIN R. SIBERT, COMMANDER OF THE 20TH

INFANTRY REGIMENT HERE. ONE SIDE SHOWS THE

SAINT IN THE CENTER WITH THE WORDS: "BEHOLD

ST. MAURICE-PATRON OF INFANTRY" (TOP). OTHER

SIDE DEPICTS CROSSED RIFLES WITH THE WORDS:

"INFANTRY-SOUL OF THE ARMY...IN GOD WE ENTRUST

OUR LIVES." THE DESIGN WAS APPROVED BY THE

MILITARY ORDINARIATE IN NEW YORK. COL. SIBERT

SAID ARRANGEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE TO MANUFACTURE

THE MEDAL AND THE FIRST WOULD BE STRUCK WITHIN

SEVERAL MONTHS.

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