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| | PVT. OTTO A. WIESE
Serial No. 2,983,450
328 Breckenridge St., Detroit, Mich.
Inducted June 25, 1918, at Camp Custer.
At Camp Coetquidan, during our intense training period, Private Wiese no doubt performed a series of duties imposed on the private that is ordinary in army life. Owing to the frequent guard duties which he had to perform, he had but little time for sleep, but did not complain. He was a good mixer, a good fellow and generous in the extreme. He liked to chew tobacco and claimed, for fun, that he had a special kind which he called Virginia sun-cured gum.
During our activities in the lines, Wiese was detailed to the duties of runner a position of responsibility, which requires resourcefulness, fixity of purpose and a disregard of danger. Wiese showed that he possessed the courage and sense of duty essential to execute orders when imperiled by enemy snipers, as well as all other forms of projectile. Congress was more liberal in recognizing the runner in awarding its medals, because this form of duty called for greater heroisms. If the battle had continued, Wiese would certainly have gotten his.
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