Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-07

with the crolx de guerre. but neverthe-
Iess Mort pour Ia Patrle." inspect
ed the nnmes md the organization
and found they were nearly all from
my division. Madeinoiselle knew this.
too. and she gave me little piece OF
buls and said:
"CeSt pour yotre camarnde. s'il est
Icl." tI'his is for your comride II he
n hcre).
| thanked her ny best could In n
low voice. because somehow could
not trust myself to speak loud or long.
] lid not know any Of the boys sleep
Ing there, but on the crosses above
Them there was the name and organi-
zGilon Of each OF them and that was
enough.
Somehow I seemed 10 have been ac-
qpalnted with them for long time
and could almost picture how they
had looked when they landed over
mere. So ! read the names OF them
all and placed my little piece Of buis
upon the grave Of one Arthur Il. Peter
son OF the - Ambulance company.
Tribute TO Americans.
Mile. Thcrese decorated each Of the
others I'm the same silent way that
had done. For few moments no one
seemed TO have anything to say. and a
deem silence prevailed until mndemoi-
sellc hud decorated the Inst. saving ms
she did 40.
lies pnuyres earcons. lis sont venus
81 Iolns pour mourirr fTbe poor boys !:
they have come so far N die).
"Mnis ils ont anis de sou0rier senx
In eest n ieur nauvres meres oue 10
pense. moi" saId Nine. RevelIlon.
fTbelr suffering ia over. n 'is NJ their
moor mothers that I nm tbluking,
When I could ,rust myself 10 sneak
I tried to smile nv anprecio,Ion az
their yenerositv and said.
.But there are hundreds NJ your
po,lus bere.
"Ab oui" sa,d mons,eur .hut we
are very for,nnote In having tbem
here near us wbile those narents bnc,,
In America have not had tho onnor.
tunitv N even hid them poodbv
Tbe,r sorro.v tbs,r r.snect and ,ba,r
sympntbv were nrofound md sincere
II is bevond nv canncItv IN describe 4,
further Here we're motbers mourninp
the loss az other motbers whom the,
bod mover saan ala moi tnow no,
would tbey ever know II was not 81
much for the SONS that law buried
there but those that wore loft hebln,
IN mourn An these women bo,
mourned the Ioss of some Kin sine,
. 1914 and their symna,bv was eennlpe
All Pause IN silence.
Tbere wer,s otber nerson, tn tbe
cemetery who hod come IN honor tbei,
dead in tho same wav and os LOOKED
they all steamed md read "a mn,
comarades les AmerIcainsn nonse,
and In sI,enca yayed NJ tho crosses onf
nossed nm
This WINS Palm Sunday hut IN,
foryo,,en TINT and 7 found mvself no
lieving n Memorio, dov bact home
We loft tho f,e,a and continued on =,
the Garden on tho ortstirts ~ IN.
town uaro sooa ,uo hours ,otor n,
wa sat IN front of the maisonnatt,
M ono epa of tho y,rden modemoisa,,e
strupp,Ing tbrou,b n sentence In Eng
ush was Suddenly intorr,nted nv :,
vollev Of rife fire.
"Ecoutez - nistan, she so,d "op,es
mo c,est >" fwbot Is tbotO Anotba,
vo,lev md then ,potber No on.
stirred A bugle note struck the air
Te c,oiron, s,id modemoisa,,e nm,
again comnlete silence
From far AWAY n came hut In IN,
intense s,ionce n w,s e,si,v d,stip
gu,sboh,e and whom tho last note ha,
died away modemo,salle turnad IN m,
and said. aon,est oue e'est?"
Af,or a sacond foupd INV voice mn,
was inst shont IN exnIain when
"Ecoutezm
Anotber vo,,ev fo,lowed nv tw,
more Again the cluiron And aroir
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