The sun., 1916-11-26
AMERICAN FIGHTERS
IN FRANCE LAUDED
CASTOR RiOu, Noted Author,
Pays Eloquent Tribute to
the Twenty-Five Dead.
800 BATTLE IN THE RANKS
Great Majority Enrolled for
Love Of Nation and
Right.
800 BATTLE IN THE RANKS

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Under the headines "Heroic Neutrais."
americas voiunfeers," the Petit Pa
risteH printed on November l.. An Saints
Day. the day the French people think OF
their lead and visit their tombs. the fol-
totctW0 eloquent tribute to American
fighters for FraHce, p,ftfen by CASTOR
Rtou, q soeT knoVn author, whose "Jour-
nal Of a French Soldier has been ore OF
the feD really successful pieces OF Wtcrd-
ture produced since the trdr began.
~ CASTOR RIOU.
There are nearly 800 citizens OF the
United States In the French army. More
han 100 have been wounded and twen-
ty-fve have been killed. May . per-
sonai friend Of several OF them be al
lowed to present this company OF brave
men to France?
Some-very few-have volunteered
from love Of war for example. this youth
Of II. already wearing q stripe, who
confessed to . comrade. IT love fighting.
I love to make q charge. but what a bore
the trenches are :" Others. perhaps a
dozen. have welcomed a chance for ad-
ventures and have taken service. far less
to defend a cause than to escape from q
peaceful. gray. monotonous existence.
tool shut of into divisions by laws and
customs.
But the great majority Of these Amer.
leans, and Il Is their glory as much as
ours. have enrolled themselves under our
nag from love OF France and right.
I have before me a pile Of Letters that
prove II. Those who wrote them. legion
aries or aviators. sleep now on tho
Marine. In Artois. In Alsace. among our
own dead. Witnesses who fight till they
are killed may be believed.
Almost all belong to the intellectual
class. The father OF Chapman. who
died for France at the & Of rs. Is one
his great-Erandfather signed the IA
nous Declaration OF Rights which
founded the American republic. Ken
meth Weeks. who died at rs. on June IS.
1915, at Givenchy. II the author OF
Five Impractical Plays Science. Sen
timents and Senses" works OF art and
philosophy which give the promise Of a
master thinker.
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rr'nce OF "'cA r""'
Norman Prince belonged to one OF
the richest and most esteemed families
Of Boston. Alan Seeger. dead on July
1 at Belloy-en-Santerre. wrote some OF
the finest verse that the war has In
spired. As for KILN Rockwell. that
great soldier whose loss his chief Of
snnouncea w,,h The words
9TH. braves, and hest Of Ms ia no more
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paa. al. ~nn.rtnn ~, wi,i,am ,hs
Conn..nnr hs,na h,s d,r.,, arnss,nr
S0"s"e'"' 'ee "' "
n.ar.s and Iovea Life.
All these young men. the elite OF
Americas elite. were refined M loved
life. They believed that the splendor
OF life was to struggle for justice and
right. Sons OF washington and Lin
coin. they had the cult or democracy.
They were modern In every acceptance
OF the term. hating violence and rever-
ing the dignity OF man and OF peoples
Above all they were men or conscience,
Of pure n strong characters.
An American who knows men said
to me: chapman and kim Rockwell
are two OF the noblest types OF men
have met In my life And such is
the phalanx whose love We have won
love. body and soul, love to death.
KILN Rockwell wrote TO his brother
who had been wounded; III France
should be conquered ] would rather die"
why thls sacred enthusiasm anon CIT
liens OF n foreign nation: Rockwell
oiten said: - am paying Tor La "A
ette ana i~tocnafhpeau' but the reason
TOT tnelr sacrince IL more profound.
Ihese young americans gave them'
selves 10 rance on Aueust ', 1919
because rran,e WIS III tnelr eyes q
knlsh,, the khisnt OH tns n,ehest humar
IusaI vi" naS I'uInln,u 'he earth -
~" 'oooelIeu user
uPon neL Wv o's " 'VeoH as lo'
s"asnoueh,
hr,,.os Nn, rh., ""un1s AM
v,I men r,bo Lraw tha nr,o. 80 49,,
ana na.ce Ru, tho r.nto. moen,s
hwck,sr, mus, no rn~u,,,ed -, No.,
from the Snrec mus, hs ho.,nn Avn
IN saw the beontS ~ living ,or ",
the world ~ ~
I knew Kinnn Rockwell fall s,r,to,
and slender. full of nerves hut VIII
fierce will and something ~ n ,,ico,
in his looks. When cured n, b,s urs
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