Category: Biographies
From the time when we were very little boys we were always interested in military preparedness. My father believed very strongly in the necessity of each boy being able and willing not only to look out for himself but to look out for those near and dear to him. This gospel was...
"And horror is not from terrible things--men torn to rags by a shell, And the whole trench swimming in blood and slush, like a Butcher's shop in Hell; It's silence and night and...
6. CHAPTER VI"How strange a spectacle of human passions Is yours all day beside the Arras road, What mournful men concerned about their rations When here at eve the limbers leave their load,...
8. CHAPTER VIIIEarly in July rumors reached us that we were going to be relieved. At first we did not attach any importance to this, as we had heard many rumors of a like nature during the mon...
12. CHAPTER XIIThe war is important to us in this country for what it accomplished directly: namely, it crushed the brutal military power of Germany, which threatened our ideal of civilization...
1. CHAPTER IFrom the time when we were very little boys we were always interested in military preparedness. My father believed very strongly in the necessity of each boy being able and will...
9. CHAPTER IX"'Millions of ages have come and gone,' The sergeant said as we held his hand; 'They have passed like the mist of the early dawn Since I left my home in that far-off land.'" IRO...
4. CHAPTER IV"I wish myself could talk to myself as I left 'im a year ago; I could tell 'im a lot that would save 'im a lot in the things that 'e ought to know. When I think o' that ignorant...
11. CHAPTER XIThe Third Army, which was to march into Germany as the army of occupation, was all in place on the 15th of November. My regiment was bivouacked in what had once been a wood, nor...
5. CHAPTER VThe billeting of the men was a problem. As I mentioned before, the constitution of the United States forbids billeting, taking as ground for this action that when soldiers are p...
10. CHAPTER XHardly had the new replacements, some 1800 in all, learned to what company they belonged, when our definite orders reached us. The trucks arrived and we rattled off toward the f...
3. CHAPTER IIIMy brother and I sailed from New York for Bordeaux on June 18, 1917. One little incident of the voyage always stands out in my mind. As we were leaving the harbor, the decks cro...
2. CHAPTER II"Sons of the sheltered city-- Unmade, unhandled, unmeet-- Ye pushed them raw to the battle As ye picked them raw from the street. And what did ye look, they should compass? Warc...