Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-12
LEFT AMERICA MERE BOYS, RETURN MATURED MEN
 AND SEASONED SOLDIERS, WITH HONORABLE WOUND!
Rut Many are Wrecks from Wars Awful Carnage, Glad However, to be Again American Soil
 Maimed for Life

home as heroic sons of the nation, TAO more soldiers sailors, marines and aviators, representing virtually every state in the union, entered fog hound New York harbor today on six large transports from European uorts. The tales these men told about each were narrations of American high courage on French battlefields, on the ope nseas and in ! the air above France and England. ! Hundreds of the men, maimed for life ] by wounds received in some of the wars heaviest fighting, were hurried to hospitals and the others were sent to camps, where they will be de- mobilized.
 Some had left America as scarcely more than boys but they came back / as men, either wounded or sound. The wounded included soldiers who had walked with crutches when their ships sailed from Europe, and who, made exultant by their home com Ing tossed their props aside and de- clared themselves, "cured" as if by their return. Here was man with a jaw shot away-and happy in his eX- pectation of rejoining his wife and children. There wss man with both feet gone amputated by surgeons af- Germ'n shells in the bloody Argonne ter the bones had been splintered by Forest, but glad, he said that he. haf served country and flag regardless of the cost to himself. Other men
 "lich the statute of Liberty
 eaa LII ible to discern the , - 'h atove the busy harbor and moH'H" troops. And there was oth- CTS who could not hear the ports whistles and the air raid sirens which :l;:' ti1eir welcoming demonstra- f;r. .di nv of these men had eaten te!..' Thanksgiving dinners on ship
 "r' Wcre gad they were home va :, fove their Christmas din- re"' :" heir homes. All who returned today were not m military or naval service as ac- nal fighters. There were Y. w. c. A. girls who had suffered from gas poisoning Y. M. c. A. workers who had strengthened soldiers morale while under fire and chaplains who had risked their lies and aided Amer can contingents in destroying Ger man machine gun nests. Of these, stories without number were told by troops who themselves had survived sae wars dangers and spoke modest y of that fact.
 llustratie of Yankee heroism was 'ae ns account given of Captain c. E. Ilazebrook, of Washington, D. C., a member of the 18th field artillery Shot in the lung, gassed, wounded in me leg, removed to hospital, Cap Ean Glazebrook, arrivals said, stole way from his cot assembled a. uni on9 attached captains bars almoed through a window, rode 3e ours on an army truck without let a!ag ms companions know of his con ,lson. and entered action in the ameflcan advance on the St. Mihie 'allent Four days later. once more sassed he was back in the samt hospital.
 c asked about this incident captain usa@bWok aye said:
 . The chief surgeon gave me hel m you don't die, he said, and yol aS1oaoly will you will be court mar sleo; But outside the door 1 heart
 ,l laugh and l knew it was al
 nenlnd the crosses of war whicl s;s.y S;ssay or the returned soldiers wore sSI n.;S or the French governments li %,uents of doughboy grit and sacri M .ns which parallel the increditabl % .a tne telling of which would fil eIs Sses or newspapers. Some of tn n;s4s wu.ers and marines described thei FR"st TRas'lust for the Germans who erie hsa sa.nerad" and who were killed il pi;t;a. iiH's tracks after treacherous acti s;fs ,its'' Sailors spun yarns of battle I submarines. Aviators explain po;n.s MOw they tempered their disap pr;na; eiaent at not reaching France b ns ns.ng down enemy airplanes dul < ralds on England
 rsns wph'eS of war cana hom,: cn th nns nsp1rts the Adriati: and Ascar Emo,} }nr!tish), and the Tenadore: stsI Isna, aa Calama :er, and the has Hsr$ 1 snip Mercy (American). lhrs hHnslSsuers'an khHnaS helmets. German ms
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 THE WEATHER.