On January 20, 1981, the newly elected President Ronald Reagan faced the nation from the West Front of the Capitol, memorializing the forgotten life of an unsung American hero — “Martin Treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.” “We’re told that on his body was found a diary,” Reagan continued. “On the flyleaf unde