Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-12-13

10 Inc Star Spangie banner
and by the way they were the
only drunk American soldiers l
saw that day. Just then French
soldier just as bad off as they
came along. The Frenchman evi.
IDENTITY conceived it his patriotlc
duty to kiss those two American
soldiers, so he waded in. If you
see Judge Bethurum or Tom
Niceley, they can tell you the
first thing I thought of. The
Americans resisted with all the
power they had but the French
man held on and never stopped
until he had kissed them both on
both cheeks. I have never seen
anything so funny Just to see
those fellows struggle and hear
them curse that Frenchman, not
a word of which he understood,
is beyond any description. While
everybody was happy and shout
ing. you could see on the faces of
many a deeper joy than could
possibly be expressed by any
outward demonstration. Belgian
refugees. who have been driven
from their homes for four years.
many of them leaving loved ones
from whom they have not heard
in all that time. One of the girls
who works in our headquarters
Office left her brother in Liege
four months after the Germans
captured it and has not heard q
word from him during the time.
She, her mother, father and
young brother escaped, not being
SO closely watched, as the boy
who was of military age. 1t must
have been a wonderful day On
the front when hostilities ceased;
when the fury of war had passed
into history; when the blood
which has dfe1ched this battle
wrecked, war cuased land for
four long years had ceased to
flow; when our boys are no long,
er aroused in the morning by
the sound of the 1barrack creep
ing forward, paving the way for
their advance, thousand of them
to their own death; when the
whirr of machine gun FIRE no long.
er sweeps over the hills and
down the valleys; when the
screaming shells no longer pass
over their heads and drop death
and destruction among them;
when rifles were laid down, can
cons cooled; machine guns dis.
mounted. and our boys who one
minute before were facing death
in their magnificent advance, sat
down beside their weapons of de-
struction, to rest. safe and secure
The world has been won not only
for Democracy, decency, and
liberty, but for Christianity,
which is the greatest of all.
Since writing you. I run across
two more Rockcastle boys here
in camp, Ben Purcell ard Buford
Meredith, who is from Brodhead.
They are both looking fine and
getting along nicely. Ben wears
the Sergeant stripes. Meredith
was in the great drive which
started just south of Scissor on
July 18Th and turned the tide oil
the war. He was gassed and wa:
in the hospital for sometime, but
has fully recovered. He gave me
the names of a dozen or more
Rockcastle boys who were in, thai
fight, among them Vess Brown
and Everett Kirby. AS far az
he knew or I have learned. the,
were the only boys from home
killed. I had possibly better no
give the names of those he gave
me, but of course knew them all
OF course there is sadness In the
thought that some have gone
yet I feel more q glory in the
fact that they have not died ir
vain, but that the great CAUSE
for which they sacrificed theil
lives and that their own glory II
/ this great victory is greater than
we dream OF. because. / would
not be true to the faith / profess
lin God. # !. did not believe thai
they see and know Of this crown,
ing victory of that faith ana thai
the life they gave for, their
mothers, wives and sisters has
born fruit in the fullest. I.wish
that these loved ones could real.