Goodbye for a Year, Old Pal
The Hastings Gazette, January 24, 1941
These boys of Battery E 216th Coast Artillery, (AA), were loading the baggage car preparatory to leaving Hastings on Thursday evening, January 16, 1941 for March Field, California. Private James Monty, star half back on the Hastings high school untied, undefeated football team of last year, and also of former years, is holding his dog Peggy, a little brown animal 7 or 8 inches high and about twice that long, a companion of his for the past 11 years or almost ever since the Monty family came to Hastings, At the right is Private Raymond Karnick who is apparently telling his Irish dog he will have to stay home as the soldiers will soon be on the road west.
