Abstract Morris Cox Moody was born in Holland, Michigan, in 1899. He attended Holland area schools and graduated from Holland High School in 1917. He worked at the Holland Sentinel newspaper until volunteering for the United States Marines in the fall of 1917. He served in World War I in the second artillery division at Verdun, Chateau-Thierry, and Soissons. He was injured at Soissons and spent almost two months at a Paris hospital. He was transferred to a veterans’...