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Alan March
"Trying to Do My Duty," tells how Cincinnatian John Poppe won the Medal of Honor in the
US Cavalry, met President Teddy Roosevelt, arrested a knife-wielding attacker, and lived an heroic life which could not be stopped by a horrific street car crash.
Click on Poppe's photo to read the article
"Trying to Do My Duty" first appeared in Ohio History Connection's magazine TIMELINE.
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Lieutenant John Poppe
Cincinnati Police
circa 1901
Lieutenant John Poppe's
Medal of Honor
in its presentation case
Images courtesy of the
Greater Cincinnati
Police Museum
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