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Now Wichita has extended on the east end all the way to the veterans hospital. My father in World War II served in the Argonne Forest. He was an immigrant. He walked across Europe with barely a ruble in his pocket. from a small village in Ukraine. The family lived in a oneroom dirtfloor house in a village called Batchkurina. My wife Joan and I visited it in 1982. He had a steerage ticket to the United States. He did not know that he had a roundtrip ticket to Francenot to Paris and the Folies Bergeres. but to the Argonne Forest. He was a doughboy.