Resolution honoring Brookline WWI soldiers

VOTED: That the Town Adopt the Following Resolution:

Resolution honoring the "Boys of Brookline" who died in service to their country during World War 1

WHEREAS, World War 1, also known as the Great War, was a global war, originating in Europe in 1914, and ending November 11, 1918; and

WHEREAS, during the course of that war, more than seventy million military personnel were mobilized, and over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died; and

WHEREAS, on April 6, 1917, the United States entered the conflict, mobilizing over four million military personnel and suffering one hundred and ten thousand deaths; and

WHEREAS, one hundred years later, as we take pause and remember all of those who served, and all of those who suffered, it is particularly appropriate that we take pause and remember those from our town, who gave so much; now

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Brookline Town Meeting hereby, and with reverence, honors the memory of Carlton C. Baker, Allan G. Barton, Albert E. Bower, Barron Brainerd, Harold Bromsoe, John J. Campbell, Elwin F. Chapman, Ralph E. Chapman, Harmon Craig, Albert L. Crocker, James F. Cromie, Martin Crowe, Thaddius C. DeFriese 2nd, Henry J. Devaney, Dennis F. Donahue, John F. Dugan, Patrick J. Dunn, Charles R. Ellis, Newton S. Frothingham, William B. Hagan, Kenneth E. Henderson, William F. Herrick, Robert W. Hill, Joseph W. Homer Jr., Edward A. Hooper, William H. Jarboe, Branton H. Kellogg, James A. King, Frederick A. Lincoln, Max M. Lustic, William D. Lyon, Charles W. McCarthy, George F. McGillen, Alfonsus J. McGrath, Kenneth D. McKenzie, James B. McClellan, Eugene D. Morse, Norman I. Moultrop, John L. Mulvey, John L. Norris 2nd, Frederic Owens, Edward C. Paine, Robert J. Palmer, Sturgis Pishon, Stephen Potter, Norbert E. Rigby, Newell W. Rogers, Mathew J, Rowley, Stephen F. Rutledge, George K. Sabine Jr., Thomas W. Saunders, Albert E. Scott, Charles L. Smith, Alexander Stewart, Gordon Stewart, Horace S. Stevens, Timothy B. Sullivan, Joseph J. Waters, Henry D. Webb, Hallek Wells Jr., Robert Williams, and Donald F. Wright, sixtytwo "Boys of Brookline," who died in service to their country; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Town Meeting takes special note of Albert Edward Scott, "Scotty," a Brookline newsboy and a graduate of the Devotion School, a member of Company H, 101st United States Infantry, Allied Expeditionary Force, and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, who was killed in action in France, on July 23rd, 1918, at the age of sixteen; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Brookline Select Board, through the Town's Veterans Service Office, cause this resolution to be read at the Town's forthcoming Memorial Day service, to be held on May 28, 2018.