Jane Brown, of Johnston, writes:

My father, Walter Brown, was a proud member of the "Yankee Division," 103rd Field Artillery, serving somewhere in France during World War I.

After the armistice (11th hour, 11th day, 11th month) in 1918, he returned home and procured a new license plate, B221, to honor the first three numbers of his Army serial number. For almost 100 years, we've displayed this plate as a tribute to his fierce patriotism.