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The The Today is the 11th of November,

2018, and on this day in history 100 years ago, occurred the following events.

Henry Gunther had every right to feel angry and discontented with his lot in life.

Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, the son of parents who were themselves the children of

German immigrants, Gunther had not signed up alongside many of his countrymen when the initial

declaration of war was made by the United States on Germany in April 1917. Instead, Henry

Gunther was pressed into service by September of that year. Gunther's resentment was not due to

his forced arrival in France though. It was instead due to his forced arrival in France, though. It was instead due to

his demotion from Sergeant to Private, a punishment which he received after he wrote a letter to a friend,

urging them to avoid the draft at all costs, in which he also set forth some justifiable

complaints about the disorganized and miserable conditions, as he put

it, on the front lines. The letter was intercepted by the American authorities, and Gunther was

penalised accordingly. Nevertheless, the Mews Argonne offensive, that final Allied push of the war,

demanded manpower, and Henry Gunther was assigned

to the Chamont de von Dam Villiers in the northwest of France. On a foggy morning, he and his squad

moved to examine a German roadblock in a nearby village. Spying the entrenched German soldiers

and their machine guns, Gunders stood up, fixed his bayonet,

and against the advice of his friend and sergeant,

charged the German position.

If his friends were aghast,

the Germans who Gunther charged towards were first confused,

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