The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1918-10-25

So Sent That One Along, and She
Landed Direct.
up in fire and smoke. felt good then,
and laid the wires on the other ware
house and let her go. But she was too
high and made clean miss. Then
I was mad, because l had sent that
one over for myself So l got the cross
wires on the warehouse again and,
/ said to myself, '4This is not for any
body, just for luck, because / sure
have had plenty Of 1t today"
Then the juice came through the
wires and into the charge, and away
she went, and up went the second
warehouse. That made two directs out
of three, and guess 1t hurt the Turks
some to lose all their ammunition.
The officer kissed me before could
duck and slapped me on the back and
/ keeled over. l was just all In.
They brought me to with rum, and
they said ! was singing when came
to. When they tried to sing, to show
INT WHAT sung IL was, i h6ulCu ~ wac
"Sweet Adeline" they meant. But l
do not believe came to, singing, be-
cause / never sang "Sweet Adeline"
before, that know Of, or any other
song when anybody was In range. But
heard 1t lots Of times, so maybe /
did sing 1t at that.
Then went to sleep feeling fine.
The next morning the detachment
from the Cassard was withdrawn, and
saw some of the men who had been
In the two trenches, but was not
near enough to speak to them. So l
do not know how they got out.
You never saw happier bunch in
your life than we were when we piled
into the lifeboats and started for the
Cassard. The old ship looked pretty
good to us, you can bet, and we said
If we never put our hoofs on that place
again 1t would be soon enough.
We were shelled on our way out to
the Cassard, and ne boat was over
turned, but the men were rescued.
Two men in the launch I was in were
wounded. But we did not pay any
attention to that shelling-the Turks
might just as well have been blowing
peas at us through a soda straw for
all we cared.
/ noticed that when we came near
the Cassard the other boats held up
and let our launch get into the lead,
and that we circled around the Cas-
sard's bows and came up on the star
board dde, which was unusual. But
! did not think anything of 1t until j
came over the side. There were the
side boys lined up, and the Old Man
was there, with the ships steward
beside him.
He took the log book from the stew
ard and showed 1t tc me, and there
was my name on 1t. Now when you
are punished for anything you are
logged, but could not figure out what
| had done to get punished for, so
was very much surprised But the
Old Man slapped me on the back and
everybody cheered, and then saw 1t
was not punishment, but Just the OPP
posite.
When people ask me what have
received my decoration for (Croix de
Guerre). tell them do not rightly
know. and that Is fact. l do not
know whether 1t was for going back
from those trenches or for destroying
the storehouses. So l always tell them
/ got II for working overtime. That
Is what the Limeys say, or If they
have the Victoria cross they say they
got It for being very careless. Ask
one OF them and see.
All Of US were certainly glad to be
aboard the Cassard again. and II any
place ever looked like home to me it
was the old ship. Our casualties were
very high and we were therefore or
dered to put back to Brest. We had
grent little celebration that night,
and next morning weighed anchor and
started back, after clearing for action.
l was still pretty blue about Muir
ray, but very much relieved as to the
safety of my own skin, and figured
that after the Dardanelles and my last
day there they had not made the right
bullet for me yet. The rest of us felt
about the same way and we were sing
ihg all the time.