In it, a player carrying the ball was fending off a tackler. Martha Deeringer, a member of Heart of Texas EC, lives near McGregor.MEDAL OF HONOR: By recreating war games between international special forces and using more competitive rules than its competitors, Warfighter looks set to please a substantial and underserved audience.ДЄnyone who has driven on State Highway 1 through Putaruru might recall a mural that was painted on the side of the Waikato town's rugby club. In 2017, the Tornillo Port of Entry in El Paso was renamed the Marcelino Serna POE. In 1924, he became a citizen and participated in Veterans Day parades until his death in 1992 at the age of 95. Army superiors told him he was not eligible for the American Medal of Honor due to his limited English.ДЄfter the war, Serna settled in El Paso, where he and his wife raised six children. Serna did not speak French when he received the Croix de Guerre, Tijerina says, nor did he speak Italian when he received the Croce al Merito. вЂњMarcelino Serna is remarkable for the many combat decorations he received, and for the one he did not receive-the Medal of Honor,вЂќ says AndrГ©s Tijerina, professor of history at Austin Community College. Mihiel Medal, Verdun Medal and two Purple Hearts, which made him the most highly decorated World War I soldier in Texas. SernaвЂ™s uniform eventually bore two French Croix de Guerre with bronze palm medals, an Italian Croce al Merito di Guerra, a French MГ©daille Militaire, French Commemorative Medal, World War I Victory Medal with five stars, Victory Medal with three campaign bars, St. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, pinned a Distinguished Service Cross on him. He spent several months in an Army hospital in France where Gen. He hobbled toward his lines using his rifle as a crutch. The survivors came out with their hands up.ДЄfter months of combat in which he didnвЂ™t get so much as a scratch, Serna was shot in both legs by a sniper four days before the armistice. He then shot a sniper at 200 yards and lobbed three grenades into a trench.

Another six were in the nest-dead.вЂќДuring a second scouting mission at Meuse-Argonne, Serna captured 24 German soldiers. Eight Germans came out with their hands up. When I got close enough, I threw four grenades into the nest. He had hit my helmet with bullets twice during the run. вЂњI kept this up until I was on the machine gunnerвЂ™s left flank. вЂњI jumped up and ran about 10 yards and then hit the dirt,вЂќ he told the El Paso Times in 1962. He declined.ДЄs SernaвЂ™s unit moved toward the Meuse River and Argonne Forest in northeastern France, a German machine gunner shot down 12 soldiers. Sent to fight in the trenches of France, he learned through an interpreter that his superiors offered him a discharge because his papers stated he was a Mexican citizen. After three weeks of training, Serna was shipped to England. World War I was raging in Europe when the U.S. To avoid deportation and prove he wanted to be a U.S. He found railroad work that took him to Kansas, but two years later, he was working in ColoradoвЂ™s sugar beet fields when federal officials arrested him. Serna was born in a mining camp April 26, 1896, and he yearned for a piece of the American dream.

Not only would he find work, but he also would give his adopted country a gift of uncommon valor. He was searching for work and a better life in the United States. Around 1915, an unassuming lad named Marcelino Serna traveled 220 miles from his home in Chihuahua City, Mexico, to El Paso.

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