This document was most recently revised on Saturday, August 20, 2011.
I originally had the poem Methuselah credited as "author unknown". In March and April of 2008, a visitor to the website, Patrick H, provided the information that's shown next.
| Information Provided by Patrick
H. The poem was written by a cook in the US Marine corp, who served in the trenches during WW I. His name was Rex Hrusoff. I ran across the name earlier, when looking through old war records and correspondence. (National Archives Index &c.) He also had used a different name (Rex Herf) when he joined the marine corp, since he was under aged and had ran away from home. |
In August of 2011, I received the following additional information.
| Information Provided by Jack
Hrusoff You published a notice of a poem written by Rex Hrusoff I am the grandson of Rex. He was a soldier, a cook, and bookseller and decent man. Thank you for your mention of him He was a wise man who worked extremely hard, well read and was patriotic. Once, after feeding an entire troop of soldiers in his restaurant, he had no laments about picking up the tab. A week later the bill was paid. |