The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-08-20
EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION.
From the Rank and File of Battery C
by one of the Younger Members.
Camp Sam Keesler,

Greenwood, Miss, Aug. 20, 1917.
Editor The Daily Commonwealth:
Dear Sir:-As one Of the younger,
ex-High School members of Battery
C, | want to ask, through your COL
umns, the privilege of expressing the
appreciation of the rank and file of
Battery c, for the gracious and in
spring treatment accorded it by. the
good people of Greenwood, and of Le-
fore County.
l have often heard my father say
that the best and the finest people
in the world lived in the Mississippi
Delta; and that the best and finest
people in the Delta lived in
Greenwood and in Leflore County, and
their treatment of Battery c makes
me realize that it is true.
As for Greenwood, it eve did a
more gracious thing than when it ten
tered us the High School Grounds for
Campus. Many of us stepped almost
directly from the walls of this High
School onto this Campus. I do not
think anything could have been more
~fitting-more appropriate. l do not
think anything could have endeared
these grand old buildings and grounds
to us and to ours, forever and for
ever, more than this one act. 1t has
linked together the most sacred events
of ur boyhood and manhood, and it has
written our school and our lives down
jointly in the pages of history.
Over yonder in the Courthouse
Square, is ore Of the pretticst, most
sacred and appropriate monuments in
the South. The writer has the honor
to be the grandson Of two of the
volunteers in whose memory it was
erected. That monument was the in
spiratin that prompted more than one
Of us to volunteer for Battery c.
Now we all know that it is a mat
ter of a very short time when we shall
all see service in a foreign land-in
another world-the Old World. And
we all know that all of US cannot ex-
pect to return to dear old Greenwood
and its good people, and to the scenes
of our childhood and boyhood, and
back to the old School and Campus.
The bones of some of us may bleach
on the battle fields Of Land,
and other Of us may rot in the putrid
prisons of an enemy that is shaming
the Dark Ages. But no sleep, tho
eternal, can beso deep that it will not
be a consolation to the honored vic
tim, and to all of US, to know-as well
we do-that before Greenwood and Le-
fore County has completed its labor
Of love and, devotion for Battery G,
another monument will arise on these
very school grounds, to honor both
the living and dead, and to inspire the
children Of future generations to love
their honor, and their country's hon
or, and the sanctity of maidenhood
and motherhood, more than their gold,
and their comfort, and their ease.
On n side of that monument will
be the names of every member Of Bat.
terry c. On the opposite side ! would
have the name Of every comrade who
may have answered the last roll call,
with this inscription:
! These men, and boys gave up their
lives fighting, not Wilson's Wars-nor
the Rich Mans War-which is a Poor
Mans Lie-but fighting the battles OF
every man, woman and child in the
world who opposes the assassination
Of innocent women and children, and
the dissertation of womanhood.
/ would devote one side to the noble
women Of the Red Gross, who are ~