Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-01

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Brother Couldn't Stop.
we advanced to a certain point and
az dropped to the ground-that is,
an but me. | looked around for my
lieutenant and couldn't find him.
thought he had been Killed and | was
next in command. l should have sent
a runner to receive orders for me, bat
dIdn | want to waste the time CT RISK
mistakes. So | went myself Just
before l reached him ! was hit by a
one-pounder. No, ! didn't stop it. 1t
kept ON going. | thought ! was dead,
AS | fell / cried out to my brother
VINO was in the ranks. He didn't hear
me- but he saw me fall.
lie didn't come to me. The or
ders, again, were to advance. He had
TO go on and leave me.
What did ! think as / lay there
with the dead and dying? It's strange
how clearly ones mind works under
conscious, but knew that I'd soon
bleed to death if | didn't bind my
wounds
My belt and most of my clothes
had been shot away, l had nothing
for bandages but my gas mask | tore
II up and tied the stump of the leg
that had been shot off. The other
leg was shattered.
Ihen | began crawling, on hands
ana knees, to a dressing station. The
nearest was three-q quarters of a mile
away. | made the distance in As
minutes
That night some one who had seen
me crawling back told my brother |
was still alive, but we haven't seen
each other since"
Sergeant Freasier is a big, hand
some youth of "a, and at the time of
ms injury was a splendid physical
specimen weighing 200 pounds. He
has fine blue eyes and red brown
hatr and a face that is earnest, sin
cefe and game" He has no kick
coming over his misfortune, and
laughingly refers to his artificial leg
as his good" one, because the other
with its missing bones and torn flesh,
must always be worn in brace
lie expects to take an executive
course in mechanical engineering at
Austin.
81 could have worked my way
through before the war" he says.
'Ihe only reason it's niece ssary for the
government to send me now is because
| am incapacitatcd"
| Not Easy to Reconstruct.
| 1t Will not be easy to reconstruct
| Private Theodore MOeller of Fallg
| county. He was wounded in the spine
| and a partial paralysis resulted. He
has been lying in bed for six months,
| He is young chap of %, with blue
eyes and fair hair.
THE Germans wore breast plates
before we got over, then they began
hoilering for back plates, we made
| EN- run so fast" he brags with Yam
kee pep.
1T was on April IL, bout II O'Clock
in the morning, when we got word the
Huns were coming. Thirteen of us
men and a corporal were detailed to
carry hand grenades, rifles and am
munition up the line and to bring back
the wounded on stretchers.
"A little later when We were held
ing line, waiting for relief, three
| of us lit in a small hole where we
| felt temporarily safe. Our own artiI-
| lery was shooting at the Germans with
! heavy guns. One shot fell short and
| hit our she'll hole.
ut killed one of the boys, The sec
| ond lost his leg, and when he saw it
was shot off, he picked it up and said:
oh boys, look what happened to me-
| Then | felt blood running down my
| neck and | said; 1t got me, too. 1t
| hit my bean but it didn't crack it..
| L started toward him, but fell for
ward. | put my hand to my back and
| folt a hole in it about the size of a
| dollar Ten minutes later a stretCher
| bearer got me. | haven't walked since,
| but one thing I'm glad of; / was hit
| by one of our own shells. No Hun
| bullet got me-"
Corporal Sam Bliss of Houston, who
| served three years on the border and
| went over with the Rainbow division
| early in the war, was permanently
| crippled on September -, at st. Mi
hiel when shot by a machine gun
| bullet in the leg. Two inches of the
| bone had to be removed, making one
| leg shorter than the other He says:
1T was midnight September H.,
| when | went into the front line under
| rain and shell fire. We spent the next
few hours fighting-cootles-and try
| ing to keep warm.
At $50 we went over the top ana
| advanced two kilometers, taking the
| German front line. Tanks had gone
before us, clearing out machine gun
nests But they missed one pill box.
| w t StlW ii utdu Iottllt hanging ONCl
the machine gun, and thought he was
| the gunner. So we advanced. But it
was only 4 camouflage. The gun
opened up on us. A bullet hit my leg
and threw it out from under me.
! jumped in a she'll hole and remained
there in mud and water, for three
| hours"
At the base hospitals n France,
Sergeant Bliss said, the wounded men
| were always cheerful.
They'd brag about their native
states and get into great wrangles.
Then they'd try to fight each other
One chap had both arms shot off, and
shrapnel wounds in his legs, We'd Of
fer him candy, and when he'd open
his mouth for us to drop it in, we'd
eat it ourselves. We were always jok-
ing. 1t wasn't safe to feel sorry for
any of the fellows, no matter how
mussed up they were
zone boy. who came back on the
ship with me, was brought over in a
basket Both arms were gone at the
shoulders, and both legs at the hips
L can't even commit suicide he of
ten said. His mother came from Sar
Francisco to New York to meet him
and when she saw him she dropped
dead"
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