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            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
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                <text>VPI Class of 1920</text>
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        <name>Rank</name>
        <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
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            <text>Died of blood poisoning while at home from VPI </text>
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        <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
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            <text>Name listed on the Virginia Tech Pylons</text>
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        <name>Service Branch</name>
        <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
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        <name>Unit</name>
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            <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;"Reginald Smith Dead." Big Stone Gap Post. Volume 26, Number 23. 5 June 1918. (see attached file)&lt;/li&gt;
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