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Carthage, North Carolina, McConnell Memorial and Moore County Court House, vintage postcard

A vintage postcard of the Moore County Court House and McConnell Memorial at Carthage, North Carolina. This postcard view is from about 1920. The McConnell Memorial is in honor of James Rogers McConnell who was a citizen of Carthage, North Carolina and who was also a member of the French Lafayette Escadrille during World War I. The French Lafayette Escadrille was a French Air Service group largely composed of volunteer American pilots who fought on behalf of France against Germany during World War I. The inscription on the monument reads:

IN HONOR OF
JAMES ROGERS MCCONNELL
1887-1917

(front side)
JAMES ROGERS MCCONNELL
A CITIZEN OF CARTHAGE
JOINED THE FRENCH ARMY
EARLY IN 1915 AND AFTER
TWO YEARS OF DISTINGUISHED
SERVICE FELL IN HEROIC
BATTLE WITH GERMAN
AEROPLANES ON MARCH 19, 1917.
HE FOUGHT FOR HUMANITY, LIBERTY
AND DEMOCRACY, LIGHTED THE WAY
FOR HIS COUNTRYMEN AND SHOWED
ALL MEN HOW TO DARE NOBLY
AND TO DIE GLORIOUSLY.
A FOUNDER OF THE LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE

(back side)
HE FOUGHT WITH ARDOUR, FOR HE
FOUGHT UNSTAINED, HE DIED WITH
GLORY, FOR HE DIED FOR TRUTH,
HE GAVE, UNRECKONING THE GAIN
OR LOSS, HIS HOPES, HIS DREAMS,
HIS PROMISE AND HIS YOUTH.