This is an article from the New York Times, September 29, 1918. This was mostly an entertainment-type section. I don’t know why this article was stuck in this section, but I’m glad I found it.

A KENTUCKY HERO

Short and simple are the annals of the private soldier, but often they are heroic and inspiring.

Private Percy PAGE of the United States Marine Corps lived at Clark, Ky., in the neighborhood of Louisville. The first that Louisville heard of him was that he was one of the fatally wounded Marines in the action at Chateau-Thierry or thereabout, and that he died while being borne from the field.

"He lived till they got him near the dressing station," writes a comrade in a letter to the boy’s parents. "On the way he seemed in no pain and talked freely * * * and then he looked up and said: ‘Well, boys, I’m going. Thank God, I’ve done my bit.’"

Private PAGE’s wounds and death were officially recorded, no doubt, the record to be forwarded in due course to his parents, but somewhere in the tangle of red tape that record remained while his parents received from one of their sons’ friends the information that their supreme sacrifice had been made.

To die contented with the reflection that duty had been done is, in peace or war, to part with life upon the best terms obtainable.

The span of a man’s life is negligible, viewed broadly. The nature of his achievement rather than the measure of his success by commercial standards, or the degree of his fame or prominence, matters to him at the moment of dissolution, if conscious, and should matter to others in making an estimate of him. If it is the sort of achievement that bridges the abyss of death with the calm of consciousness of duty done it amounts to more than estates or titles of honor.—Louisville Courier Journal