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==History== During the period of active American participation in the [[Vietnam War]] in the 1960s, Beallsville gained brief notoriety for the loss of five of its citizens in the conflict β a traumatic rate of loss for the village of fewer than 500 residents that was estimated at 75 times the national average.<ref name=Blankfort>Jeffrey Blankfort, "Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio," ''Ramparts'' [San Francisco], vol. 8, no. 1 (July 1969), pp. 39-46.</ref> The plight of the community drew wire service coverage and was the subject of a lengthy illustrated spread in the glossy left-wing magazine ''[[Ramparts (magazine)|Ramparts]].''<ref name=Blankfort /> Moved by the magnitude of the loss, Congressman [[Clarence E. Miller|Clarence Miller]] made a formal request to [[U.S. Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Melvin Laird]] and President [[Richard Nixon]] to withdraw the village's other six servicemen from combat, which was denied.<ref name=Blankfort /> A sixth of the village's sons fell in combat on March 9, 1969, cementing the community's tragic distinction of having the highest percentage rate of loss in the Vietnam War of any town in America.<ref>Ohio Historical Society. [http://www.remarkableohio.org/index.cfm?action=search_markers.marker_details&marker_id=514 "Remarkable Ohio."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924090044/http://www.remarkableohio.org/index.cfm?action=search_markers.marker_details&marker_id=514 |date=September 24, 2015 }} Dead link, originally accessed February 26, 2007.</ref>
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