SOLVED. Children's short story - Hessian soldier accidentally honored at war hero parade. [s]

[Angie]

I think this was a story in one of my school readers in elementary school ~1979-1986. The story went that the little town (set in the past) was having a veteran's day type celebration and they found out there was one really old soldier left from the revolutionary war, so they brought him down an honored him. Later they realized by his gun, that he was a Hessian (German mercenary/conscripts that fought on the English side of the American Revolution). The town eventually comes to the conclusion that all soldiers are essentailly the same and that so long after they honor this man who fought on the other side and heal the rift.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Angie, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Angie]

I had forgotten about it, but wouldn’t mind finding out still, if somebody ever comes across it.

[Kris]

A guess - The Price of Liberty - Stories of the American Revolution by Phyllis R. Fenner?

http://www.worldcat.org/title/price-o...

Short stories taken from magazines and novels, dealing with various phases of the Revolutionary War:

The bookman / Howard Fast --
Better than a cutlass / Ralph D. Paine --
The oath of Culloden / Paschal N. Strong --
Escape from the mine / Walter D. Edmonds --
Soldiering of Beniah Stidham / Howard Pyle --
A Hessian at Bennington / Bruce Lancaster --
A tooth for Paul Revere / Stephen Vincent Benét --
The Battle of Kings Mountain / Jim Kjelgaard --
Indian running / Walter D. Edmonds --
Rifleman's run / John Brick --
Patrol at Valley Forge / Russell Gordon Carter --
A man from Fort Necessity / Stephen Vincent Benét.

[Angie]

That seems right, thanks :)

[Kris]

Great. Glad we could help, Angie. If you find this isn't your book, just come back and we can move your request to the "Unsolved" folder.