Perhaps the best relationship was with the community of San Saba. In October 1930, court stenographer H. D. Mahaffy addressed the post and said in part: “With your splendid organization comprising the flower of American Manhood, you have an opportunity to render a service to your State and Nation and to the world, given to few groups of men throughout all the ages….The high ideals, the exemplified service and sacrifice for principles, that liberty shall not perish, should inspire each individual member with a burning zeal to so live, to so conduct himself, that those who come after you, that the children who now prattle at your knees, may feel and know that the sacrificial offering made by you on the alter of Liberty, has not been made in vain, and that there may come to them such a realization of the noble service rendered that they will be proud to emulate your example and follow in your footsteps, thereby bringing to a full fruition the work so worthily begun and thus become an enduring monument to your patriotic sacrifice for humanity….to do their patriotic duty as citizens of the greatest Nation under the shining canopy of heaven in the home, at the polls, in the jury box, and at the fireside.” Somehow a monument to the Doughboys, and a memorial hall for the veterans of both world wars, was always just beyond their grasp. However, the best monument of the Wiley B. Murray Post No. 27, were their works in the community, and to the state and nation.
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