The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1918-11-08
Odd Mark Made by Two Pieces
of ShrapneI From "Whizz
Bang"
SERGEANT REFUSES TO Die
Put on Liquid Diet Because OF Dan
gerous Wound, He Steals Food
From "Joy Cart"-His Good
.... Cheer Keeps Patients In
Best Of Humor.

Paris.-All life long Private Jean
Fournan of New York city will carry
a cross on his back as souvenir of
the great war. The wound that has
marked him Is so unusual that he IL
known at American Military Hospital
No I, where he is now convalescing,
as the "Red Cross Man." and doctors,
nurses and patients have watched Ills
case with unusual interest.
Fournnn Is a member of one of the
American regiments recently engaged
I'm the fighting near scissors ana
Fismes. He has been in France since
last October and went through "sev-
eral kinds of hell" on several fronts
without a scratch. And then, one
morning n short time ago, just as his
company went over the top headed
for Boche machine gun nest, a
"whizz bang" knocked him out. He
had momentary singing sensation
and then awoke to find himself on an
American sanitary train, from which
he was taken by ambulance to the hos
pital.
When he was carried to the Operat-
ing room the surgeon looked him over
and then called the other doctors to
come and look. The boy had been hit
by two pieces Of shrapnel, one OF
which had gone down his back so close
to his spine that only miracle saved
him from paralysis. The other had
crossed ut right angles, leaving the
mark Of perfect cross on his back
Fournan has those pieces of shrapne
in his Red Cross treasure bag. lie
says they're 'lucky pieces" because
they "only left n scar"
Thoroughly Americanized.
When Private Fournan is well
enough to be discharged from the hos
pital he means to spend several days
in the south of France, where he was
born. But after the war is over ht
is going back to New York city to hi'
adopted country where he has livef
for II years. He Is so thoroughly
Americanlzed that he prefers fightini
with American troops, with whom h'
trained at Camp Syracuse.
just by chance the American In thu
next bed to Fournan Is Of German
parentage. Frank He'll, Columbus
o." reads the card ut the head Of
his bed, and the corporal admits tina
his name Is as German as II sounds
An uncle who lives In Texas was -
pro-Gcrman that he dlsOwned He'll
when he enlisted for service. He'll
felt that he had To live down his name
and so 1t was that he earned his cor
porals chevrOns shortly after he haf
gone into training. He wears two
service stripes now, and he boasts thai
It took three machine gun bullets Il
knock him out the day he wa:
wounded.
He was fighting near scissors wher
he got his" His company had beer
entrenched on a hill slope that over
looked Il valley Of wheat fields beyont
which the Germans were hiding I'm tn,
woods of another slope. He'll and his
men had managed to cross the vale!
by running short distances Mt to!
speed and then dropping for breath
ing space into the wheat Just as h'
started up the slope two bullets hi
him, one In the thigh, the other below
the knee Of his left leg, and rs he fel
n third struck the big muscle in his
right forearm, so completely paralyzint
It that he had to jerk his rifle loose
with his left hand.
Interested In Eats"
He'll remembers rolling over into {
shell hole, where he lay for hours be