The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-28

I
! in The fighting southeast Of Krasnil,.
You feel little or nothing while in
! cattle" he said. AT least YOU forget
| how things affect your mind. The
| eyes see and the ears hear but those
! are perceptions which do rot result in
Impressions one could coordinate.
They do not even affect Your senti-
ments. But it is not cystClsm for all
that. merely the lack uf appreciation
Of what takes place. My captain, Il
most lONCahie fellow whom l did not
alone respect us an officer, but whom
| also thoL SHIT a great deal of per
sonaly. was leadnG his company
into fire when three bullets hit him
III the abdomen l saw him fall, but
thought nothing Of it and marched on
In spite of the fact that Won have
no i'll feelings against the enemy, and
! him as best you can. on the evening
before our first battle we were sitting
about The mess tabIe-mOst of us Of
ficers of the line. None or us had ever
! killed a man. said. Friends, when
[ meet the first Russian officer to-
morrow my impulse will be TO shake
his hand My comrades agreed with
me. But on the following day I was
obliged to lay q number Of Russians
low.
My SIovaCs are the most phleg-
matte people in the world bur cx-
| ceIlent soldiers They shoot without
anger. but simply because they are
fired ugon one fights because one
| is on the battle field and can not do
am. difforor+ rrba tcrri-1o trf,,,, j..
/ +hstt of.an z-o1, arc shot ~ ,>-fthou, he
/ in-- able to return the fire. But this is
/ MOI as fear-insnirine as if is discoug-
I INC You learn ~ know what fear is
/ when Won begin 10 realize that Won
mjchr he killed without killing some
/ bcdv first
of course. 7 have been scared That
was after had been wounded. We
had been firing a long time and when
next we advanced we C..-e into a
deer, SANDY, road ont of which We
co1IIa NOT .ar 1,e,.aFsa of the enen,v,s
terrible fire. We had to lie perfectly
sttH while J1IIIe+s sirn,,lv rolIred over
rs That ,yas awful d,
Wounded Three Times.
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while m this taei-inu he was shot
three times i'm tha arm, but continued
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ton.
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