However you spell his name, Pagett has served his country for many years in many ways
From Asia to Europe to Clinton Co.
Editor’s Note: This is the second of periodic profiles of Clinton County veterans, written by Paul Butler for the News Journal.
On Sept. 10, 1926 — a few years after World War I ended — Germany joined the League of Nations.
Exactly one week earlier — in the United States — a future member of the post-World War
II occupation force of Germany had been born in America.
The aforementioned, first intergovernmental world peace organization and the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) lasted 26 and 25 years, respectively.