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209 introduction 1. Telephone interview with Michael Daly, August 25, 2005. A paraphrase of a famous line often attributed to George Orwell but actually belonging to Winston Churchill: “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” prologue 1. For a thorough description of the Medal of Honor, see the Appendix. 2. This was the largest mass presentation of the Medal of Honor in history. Washington Daily News, August 23, 1945, final edition; New York Times, August 23, 1945. Daly’s was one of the last Medals of Honor awarded for action in the European theater. On February 26, 1946, Pvt. Joseph Frederick Merrell was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for heroism near Lohe, Germany, on April 18, 1945, the same day as Daly’s action in Nuremberg. In 2000, Daniel K. Inouye (later US senator from Hawaii) and Joe Hayashi were awarded Medals of Honor—Hayashi’s posthumously —for their actions on April 21 and 22, 1945, respectively, while serving with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy. E-mail, Carol Cepregi, Congressional Medal of Honor Society, to author, June 5, 2009. 3. Telephone interview with Michael Daly, July 18, 2002; New York Times, August 19, 1945; August 23, 1945. 4. Congressional Medal of Honor Society, History, http://www.cmohs.org/ medal-history.php; Larry Smith, Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Winners in Their Own Words (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), xiv–xv; “Introduction by Mike Wallace,” in Allen Mikaelian, Medal of Honor: Profiles of America’s Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present (New York, 2002), ix–xv; David F. Burrelli, “Medal of Honor: History and Issues,” Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, Foreign Affairs, and National Defense Division, http://www.mishalov.com/ Medal_Honor_History_Issues.html; list of Medal of Honor Recipients in Archives of Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Mt. Pleasant, SC, attached to e-mail from Carol Cepregi, Congressional Medal of Honor Society, to author, June 5, 2009; fact sheets attached to e-mail, Carol Cepregi, Congressional Medal of Honor Society, to author, March 31, 2011. Notes 210 Notes to Pages 5–7 chapter 1 1. Joseph Dorst Patch, A Soldier’s War: The First Infantry Division,AEF (1917– 1918) (Corpus Christi, TX: Mission Press, 1966), 85–90. 2. Larry Smith, Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Winners in Their Own Voices (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), xvii; 1870 Federal Census, Ward 19, District 17, New York City; “A Very Lively Primary,” New York Times, October 2, 1893; “In Mr. Stillings’s District,” New York Times, September 1893; “Surrogate Notices,” New York Times, July 26, 1894; “In the Real Estate Field,” New York Times, March 29, 1894; and “A Catholic Club Reception,” New York Times, January 9, 1896; Information Sheet filled out by Paul Gerard Daly, United States Military Academy Special Collections and Archives, United States Military Academy Library; telephone interview with Michael Daly (hereafter TID), August 20, 2002; William K. Wyant, Sandy Patch: A Biography of Lt. General Alexander M. Patch (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991), 26–28. 3. Transcript of Paul Gerard Daly, Class of 1912 and excerpts from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Princeton Undergraduate File, Princeton University Archives (PUA), Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University. 4. “West Point in the making of America,” http://americanhistory.si.edu/ westpoint/history_6b.html; “Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the United States Military Academy [1913, 1914, 1915]”; “Regulations for the United States Military Academy,” and “Abstract of Delinquencies,” United States Military Academy Special Collections and Archives; “Major Paul Daly Receives DSC for Heroic Acts,” newspaper clipping, n.d., Daly Family Papers (hereafter DFP). 5. Donald M. Kington, “The Plattsburg Movement and its Legacy,” Relevance : The Quarterly Journal of the Great War Society 6, no. 4 (1997): 4, http:// ww.worldwar1.com/tgws/re1011.htm; War Records, Paul G. Daly, Princeton Undergraduate File, PUA, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University; Frank Parker, Brigadier General, USA, to Major Paul Daly, Commanding 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry: Subject: Record in the 18th Regiment, n.d., DFP. 6. Patch, A Soldier’s Story, 66, 79–81; handwritten copy of original words written by Gen. Frank Parker for proposed Medal of Honor citation for Paul G. Daly, attached to letter from Parker to Paul Daly, March 23, 1923, DFP. 7. Consolidated Index Card, Organization Records, 1st Division, Subject Index and Cross Reference to Doc. File, 6603–6980...

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