The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-10-09
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boys below down with sickness. and IL
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cane down 70 talk 70 us. Boys be
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GERS. bgt for the lore Of heaven. me
ship viii perish II me frernen desert
ia this. me hour Of need
That Ia why I say the power Of the
navy IL In me. When the coal stops
the ~battleships stop, and the enemy
can take yer az his own time"
Across the slip between the big ship
and the next door the sailor drl had
out into an open door exercise. /
They were the "nen behind the guns"
an integral part Of the great fighting
mechanism which IN soon to spread It's
influence worldwide ia the mighty
conflict facing this nation. I looked
Sideways at the man beside me, who
represented the silent working force
Of the American battleships, but his
was lifted above the immediate
Of moving units. II rested
in the grnoke-clouds coming from the
huge stack Of an adjoining vessel.
"The boys hev starte: work fer
Uncle Sam" he observed, with a touch
Of pride. And I knew that down In
the cayernous recesses of that gray
steel hull. other representatives Of the
power Of the navy" we're bending
their backs to the end hat the tradi-
tons Of the American navy might be
upheld and the honor Of the flag main
tained upon the seas.