Category: Poetry
The A. E. F. was about the most sentimental outfit that ever lived. Most of it—so it seemed to anyone who served on the staff of _The Stars and Stripes_—wrote poetry. All of it read poetry. “The Army’s Poets” column, in which some hundred thousand lines of verse were printed d...
The A. E. F. was about the most sentimental outfit that ever lived. Most of it—so it seemed to anyone who served on the staff of _The Stars and Stripes_—wrote poetry. All of it...
2. Part 2But don’t you fret or don’t you fume, For honest Injun! How Would you have felt if you were not In Uncle’s Army now? RAY L. HUFF, Pvt., M.D.
3. Part 3I LOVE corned beef—I never knew How good the stuff COULD taste in stew! I love it WET, I love it DRY, I love it baked and called MEAT PIE. I love it camouflaged in HASH— A hundr...
4. Part 4Poppies in the wheat field; how still beside them lie Scattered forms that stir not when the star shells burst on high; Gently bending o’er them beneath the moon’s soft glance,...
5. Part 5Roll, roll, roll, over the rails of France, See the world and its map unfurled, five centimes in your pants. What a noble trip, jolt and jog and jar, Forty we, with Equipment C...
6. Part 6There’s about two million fellows from the North, South, East and West Who scurried up the gang plank of a ship; They have felt the guy ropes paying and the troopship gently swa...