Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-27
Northwestern NelUs

lesG. has developed some beautiful
things too. Take the chaps over here
who a year or Little more ago were
following their own in~clinations, do
ing their work and seeking what
pleasures their desires, purse or en-
them with the American soldier of
today. e I'll.
The man who has been at the front
has changed the most. The brave
man is not he who IL foolhardy and
rushes into danger blindly, but the
man who Knowing danger fights
down the natural inclination to play
safe, and then goes al his work Of
war whatever It may be.
lost sight Of in the hour Of conflict,
that the mind has else to do than
think Of home. There never Is an
attack so sudden or more so rapid
that busy thoughts cannot nov fast.
er. Witness this:
Well they slipped mo a Croix de
Querre, but I didn't win 1t. mother
It was n OF the boys out Of tho
10th Massachusetts,. one Of the 1T
men decorated recently by the
French Government for the gallant
defense at Seichsprey, who made that
statement this afternoon when lazily
loahng and lying on the river bank
in the beautiful park here, I was try
Day letter.
What do you mean" I asked.
well. you know" he began hest
plain! When 1 left home she told
me to be a good. boy and to do my
duty always. When We went into
the trenches up there I remembered
ylk .N~S-AA@ rA@- kA~k LA., A. N.,k-H.
turned loose their artillery and gas
and shrapnel at us, why there was
only n thing I wanted to do-blow.
They lambasted our positions harder
and harder and then they came over
in f1ocks. It looked like all day with
US. Like a flash I remembered what
ma said. and believe me L forgot
the gun I was working. Course we
had to fall back some, but we chased
en-. out again, and-well IM~no hero
at ALL"
You see, mother was right up front
in the trenchesswith him.
And mothers work and doing, and
heart is evident in more ways than
one over here in the war zone. There
is more than one mother over here
actually at work in hospitals. Red
Gross comfort stations. Salvation
Army, or Y. M. G.. A. Surprised at
the naming Of one branch-you
haven't heard much Of the Salvation
Army canteens. because OF the over
~shadowing Y. NJ. C. A. Nevertheless
while the Y. M. G. A. has hundreds
of branches or hunts at many coun-
tiers and two in the front line, the
Salvation Army has an equal number
at the front and devotes its whole at.
itention to the front lines.
You have wondered what becomes
Of all the socks and bandages and bed
clothes and pajamas. They are used
beyound question. Ill tell you more
of that in another letter. But some
mother or sister or sweetheart OF
wife made the pajamas that some.
body's boy was given when. battle.
scared, he came into this or anothe,
hospital. II some mother had MOI
worked so hard, there would have
been no pajamas. After sleeping ir
underwear. mayhap with all clothes
on for weeks and months-ah
Mothers it is a feeling beyond des,
cription to once again enjoy some.
thing of the comforts of home.
81 And now mother and mothers. here
is the, message the boys ":over here
want sent back over there. "Cheel
up and write often. but don't worry
You wouldn't want q boy who wa
a coward. and you, Heaven forbid
are not a spineless paciflst who hal
no loyalty. OF course you didn't