Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-11-01
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ling ireland Must BE Heaven, for
My Mother Came from There .
I'm not Irish, are you? You say
it would be all right with you il
Ia bring home a maeam-was-
hell''-I think that's What they
say lit sounds like il. There's
no danger of me bringing one
illl tell you why. Maybe when
got her across the pond and get
her so could talk to her, she
might be an A. p. A. Why, lots
OF men get piped when they thinl,
they understand them. oh, yes.
that's true, too. could hear
what you said this far away. Don't
let the fruit cake slip your mind,
We sure have lots of fun with
the French. We have some of
them so they can cuss pretty
good. We have some time max
ing them understand. For in
stance, we went into restaurant
TO get some scrambled eggs. Aft
er trying every way we could to
make them understand, but
couldn't. We gave it up as bad
Job and were going somewhere
else, when one of the fellows got
an idea. He crowcd like a rooster
and rolled his hands. Right away
she got us. We got he eggs and
some French fried potatoes. They
sure hit the right spot. We rode
all the night before and the
coaches We're not Pullmans. They
looked more like big dry goods
boxes, although they were we'll
lighted when we came 10 a
switch. We had hard tack and
corn beef for supper the niehl he
fore. | was luclly-thc corn beef
was spoiled. suppose you fig
ure how | was lucky? The hard
tack was all right. II might have
been spoiled, too. The town we
landed in about noon the NEXT day
i can't mention the namr- hui
The battle thai took place There
Will add several pages to our his
tory after the war. We STAYED i'm
this place about three weeks. One
Sunday a bunch of us walked out
to the deserted trenches once oc-
cupled by The lIrilzics. We gath
cred a few souvenirs. One of our
party found a bomb that failed to-
do its bit i'm the proper place. He
started to fool with il and when
he had ii nearly apart ii exploded
IN his hands. He nearly lost both
his hands and his eyes. ii was
lucky for us all that he had if so
near apart.
You have seen the pictures of
The dugouts and trenches. They
are just as you see them. only
they haven't the finishing touch
es like the pictures. You have
seen the movies of the war. This
is where they get them. l'hey are
all shooting blanks, though. just
play war, like us kids used TO play
soldier.
A German helmet would he
quite sight i'm the u. s., woulda't
IL? | had one. III had all the
decorations on il and around the
crown piece had "Gott Nit U.s." |
got it from I,renchman that was
passing by i'm Red Cross train.
His hip was broken and he had
some lead in his back. You could
tell he was i'm great pain, but H."
smiled and said, Give me a Gig
arctic, liddo.' i'm broken English.
i got a chance to trade the helmet
for a sack OF Bull Durham to-
hacco. SO the Dutch helmet is
unit someone else" | get lots of
letters asking me if | ever get a
chance to dance. lIa! lla! I'll
say al times we dance little. but
| can't say like the music. II
has that buzzing sound.
was at church Sunday i'm "a
real old fashioned church. 1t was
built in The 18th century. You
can imagine what a historical
place it is. While the Eritzics
were boss around here, they
erected a machine gun i'm the
steeplc near the cross. They
thought the French wouldn't shell
the cross. He did lots of damage
until they located him, but
when they did, gun, Fritzir and
all came down. Nearly every
church is ihal way. | can't en-
plain how beautiful the music
was. never heard anything like
il before.
You have read OF The great
avlaiors OF France. The best
ones are called aces. but there is
one that is called the ace of aces.
He's the best. | was out to The
aviation field and saw him. He
had so many medals he could
hardly walk. have also seen The
king and queen of England, and
The king of Italy passed our bar
racks. Gen. peIain, the great