![]() ![]() Maxwell was an emigrant from Scotland who had moved to southern Iowa to work in the theater for anywhere from five to seven years before the war, according to Centerville newspaper accounts. And that is selfless thinking. So I get a lump in my throat thinking about it." "Someone needed ammunition and someone needed to do it. All your thoughts are on getting the mission done," said Thomas, 69, of Orem, Utah. ![]() There are so many things you don't get word about on the battlefield. "My imagery is based on my Vietnam experience. ![]() His family has kept the story of his heroism alive at reunions, though he's not well known in Iowa. Issac Thomas thinks of Miner's last minutes often and the decision to volunteer so close to the end. His great-great-nephew is astounded by Miner's story of fighting for a country that discriminated against him because of his race. Miner was killed at age 28, the coal miner son of slaves who lived in rural Appanoose County, Iowa, among the last Americans to die, just three hours before the Armistice. “I never saw Wayne Miner again,” he wrote. Miner and the men went off like pack horses with ammunition and a rifle slung over their shoulders. ![]()
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