The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-03-06

ABOUT
THE
YANKS
HEROES THREE VISIT KENosHA.
Marines who won the Citation Of the
Legion Spend Sunday Afternoon
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with Friends In henoSha.
"Heroes Three, wearing proudly
the red fougere, the proof of their cita-
tion for the Legion of honor and bear
ing resignedly awful sears which war
had made E. J. West and Walter hi
ing of Milwaukee and J.. G. Klunk of
Chicago met in Kenosha on Sunday.
For them it was the first meeting since
they had been huddled up in front of
an embarkation camp over in France
ready to come home to recover from
the frightfulness of war. It was a
merry little party at that. Badly with
cred hands which showed plainly how
they had been cut by shrapnel and q
terribly wounded face still bearing the
bandages of the army surgeons were
only incidentals to these brave fellows
who had been members of that i'm
mortal 54o members of the 9Th and
9th regiment of American Marines to
be cited for the way in which they held
back the Huns at Belleau wood and
made it possible for the allied troops
to come out victorious in world war
instead of permitting the brutal ad-
vance Of the Hun.
eyes we are proud to have been
one of the buncho said West who was
member Of the 43rd company of the
5th Marines, as he moved rather
restlessly as he felt the twitch of the
cold wintry wind in one of the old
wounds. "We are not on dress parade
or anything of the kind just dropped
into Kenosha for a Sunday afternoon
out of the hospital and just looking
up some Of the old friends'. He
pointed over to Thing who was in
the 9Th company. "That fellow has a
real story. He was in all the hard
fighting" and right there Thing broke
in with "Well you know we were all
together and am just as proud of
them as they are of me. I" EWe might
look little bunged up but we are
coming back fast and some time we
are going to try and be as good as
ever''.
"Young Kincaid of this +. town
chimed in Klunk who was in the 23rd
company Of the 9th machine gun regi-
ment Of the marines twas along with
us. I remember him very well and I
want to say that he was entitled to all
he received in the way of decorations.
He was right in the fighting all the
time and believe me he was a Marine.
I don It know as I could say anything
more that would be greater TO his Gre
dit than that he was a marine and that
he acted just like marine is ex-
pected to act. - HThere's another fell
low in Kenosha we would like to see
again. said West as he was leaving,
"that IS Charley Greenwood. He was
with us too and he left his leg over
there in the woods. You may not have
known it but Greenwood got just the
same as we got. He never knew what
it was to be afraid of anything and
he was one of the men that our COM
Ipany was the most proud of. Kenosha
people owe that boy real debt Of
honor. He was a real soldier all the
time he was in the service. There was
not q man who knew him but was
proud when he was cited for his brav-
cry on the feld.''
These battle SCARED heroes showed
the twisted hands that scame as re-
suit of the bitter fights all along the
German front. They told the stories
of the fighting all along the front and
they smiled as they told of the hardest
battles. They referred to the "ropes"
as nice things to have and they adj
mitted that they were just as proud as
they could be that it was their company,
and their regiment and their division
which had won the decorations.
These Heroes Three are being recon
structed at the army hospital and they
hope that their muster out will come
along about the first Of June when they
will have been sufficiently recovered
to return to civilian life.