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The Club is always looking for speakers.


The Middlesex Club was formed in 1867 by National Guardsmen who were bankers and newspapermen.


It was never in Middlesex County but Silas T. Cobb of the 3rd Mass Heavy Artillery who let John Wilkes Boothe go on the Navy Bridge is buried in Holliston in that County.


The Club hosts the Lincoln Dinner as the Counties do not do it. Every GOP president since TR through George H. W. Bush as spoken at a Lincoln Dinner for the Club.





The 110th Cavalry Association


Because of the code used in the Warren Commission Report and in Dallas on November 22, 1963 the 110th Coat of Arms gets used in media a lot.


You have to figure out how to spot it.


We had a Chaplain that was a Catholic Priest and he was good at teaching it.





You all get the thing now?


The Chaplain for 110th Armor was the Priest in Bunker Hill Council 62 of the Knights of Columbus when JFK was killed and he was a member.


D.H.L. Gleason buried in Natick was the WM of the Meridian Lodge of Freemasons and had been on the Lincoln Assassination Investigation after being in 1st Mass Cavalry.


I was in Bill Wilson of AA's National Guard unit in Vermont. He left before World War One but the unit was sent to CT, MA and RI's 110th Cavalry units and fought in YD in WW I.


The Polar Bear? O'Neil killed as an 11B in the 339th Infantry called the Polar Bears grew up in Sherborn and that was Grange Hall 110.


Dover Legion is named after a man killed in YD on the 110th day of 1918.


I was in the Norcross, Georgia Lions Club where Homer Brooks killed in Company L 102 Infantry of YD is buried.


The 26th Division Chapel in Belleau met the fundraising goals to fix the roof. The YDVA maintains this and the memorial at Mauthausen for the liberation of Gusen.



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