This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: 10 or 12 from Co. "E". Who were they? Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1553 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. November 5, 193l. "Cow War Casualties".--Who said the late "cow war" was all play, with no resulting casualties? Sidney's ten or dozen members of Company E who were in the thickest of it, and who resturned once more to peaceful occupations Saturday, can tell you differently. Of course, the trip to Tipton being the first of its kind, was to a certain extent one that gave the boys a novel experience and being such, was not regarded as a very great hardship. But this last call, to Burlington, was different. To begin with, a bad start was made, chargeable to somebody who thought he was a regular cutup pulling the old gag that war had been declared by Japan and the cattle veterans were wanted to help put down the little slant-eyed Japs. How could a fellow help but get a wrong start into things with such a beginning? And then to top it all off, the Sidney delegation to a man lost their clothes, but fortunately not their skins. No, the loss was not occasioned by some enraged papa-cow who resented the invasion of the boys into his bovine domicile, nor by an infuriated farmer with a pitchfork. In fact, the loss is not permanent--their clothes have only been temporarily withdrawn from circulation. All because the chap entrusted with the key to the lockers in the armory at Shenandoah went out and lost it. So why should the "cow war" be regarded as a lark? Ask the boy who were "over there". N.B.: To find other postings about the Cow War, go to the "Search" space and type in +cow war and that is all that will come up.--W.F.