The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-04-29

at Chateau Tbierry yet. he used (
sing for US in the evening and We sure
enjoyed ourselves. 50 when We hit
the Rhine Chayken was made cor
poral and was transferred 10 y Bat
terry and left US in hole They Ger
tainiy have . peach or a show fuli %
funny stun. ! laughed so much I had
tears in my eyes half an hour after
wards I think they are going TO play
here again soon.
Chayken was telling ne that he ex-
poets 20 get a discharge soon and
work for some newspapers IN France
Pretty lucky. I think Well. I don't
know as TO when I Will get my dis
charge but don't care. as long as
] can spend next Christmas at home.
They are trying TO raise an army OF
volunteers to replace the drafted men
with rs ! guess the boys are kind
OF slow in the volunteering. seeing
what the regulars got Some times ]
get mad as he'll for enlisting. when I
did but then again. when | think over
the times I am proud that I did
did a foolish thing for transferring
from the g. A. c.. FOR most of them
have been over here. did their
bit and arc back home again. while I
am stuck here in Germany. and do
not know whether I ever will get
back or not That is the punishment
you get for belonging to a first class
vision. 1t was the same way after
Chateau Thierry. Every time Foch
began new attack the Second Dt-
vision was given a place OF honor We
were what General LeJenne. our di-
vision commander sad. Foch's Spe-
cials. reserve and shock troops and we
lived up to our name. for We sure
shocked the Heinies wherever we hit
them. remember just before We
went into the line at Champagne,
when we were held in reserve. that
Foch asked for an American division
and Pershing gave him the Second.
and Foch was supposed TO have said,
Els the Second Division the whole
American arrny?" The people over IN
the states never heard much about Us
for We fought ANONYMOUSLY after
Chateau Thierry There are four d.
visions the Germans hate worse than
the devils. they are the South High
landers. Ladies From He'll; the Aus
traIians. devil lenors: the Chaussers.
French Blue Devils. and the Second
Division. American Devil Dogs
saw them all in action. except the
Australians The Scotch relieved US
at scissors and the Chaussers fought
beside US in the Champagne and they
fought beside us on the hills Of Cham
pagne-all blue devils.
Our doughboys used to curse the
French infantry men because they
were slower and our infantry always
followed a barrage TOO close. but
they always said il was better TO fol-
low too close than too far away, for
HeinIe gets ali the chances in the
world TO crawl out Of his hole and use
lis machine gun and I think they were
right for Heinie never stopped them
behind our barrage and then in the
Argonne the Second Division was re
sponsible for the Germans commu-
nique. stating for the first time In
four and a half years of war. our lines
were broken.
If We had been National Guard
Division We would he the most fam
GUS division in Europe, but we are
only regulars. It's our nard luck.
that's ell. The Second Division set
such a high standard Of lighting that
all the divisions had To light like hell
TO come any where near our record.
We practically made the American ar