On Nov. 28, three weeks after Election Day, Sergeant William C. O'Neill, of Marietta, Ohio, was somewhere in France with Lieut. General Patton's Third Army. He picked up a copy of Stars & Stripes, read that he had been reelected to the Ohio Legislature. Forthwith, O'Neill was sworn in by his commanding officer, though he had to wait until Jan. 26 for orders to come home. By that time he was in Belgium. He raced to Paris in a jeep to catch a plane bound back to the east coast of the U.S.
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