Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-01-10

the rear, and we simply cleaned them
out. l think all the vows were kept
That day, or else the men who made
them died first.
was shot through the thigh some
time or other after the captnin got
Dack' II felt Just like n needle-prlck
at first, and then for n while my leg
was numb. A couple OF hours after we
TOOK our trench back. I started out for
the rear and hospital. The wound had
been hurting for some time. They car
RED the cnptnin out on a stretcher
about the same time, but he died on
the way from loss OF blood. Fresh
troops came up to relieve us, but u
men refused TO go, and though o~ficInl-
~ they were not there in the trench.
they stayed until they took the can.
tain away. Then, back to billets-not
bullets, this time. I believe that we re-
ceived an army citation for that piece
OF work. but do not know, as l was
In the hospital for a short time after
ward. l do not remember much about
going to the hospital except that the
ambulance made an awful racket going
over the stone-paved streets of Etaples,
and that the bearer who picked up one
end OF my stretcher, hau eyes like dead
fish floating on water; also. that there
were some civvles standing around the
entrance as we we're being carried In.
The first thing they do In the hos
pital is to take of your old dirty band
ages and slide your stretcheP under a
big electric magnet. A doctor comes
In and places his hand over your
wound, and they let down the magnet
over his hand and turn on the juice.
IL the shell fragment or bullet In you
Is more than seven centHne.ers deep.
you cannot feel the pain. The first
doctor reports to the chief how deep
your wound is, and where II Is sltu-
ated, and then n nurse comes up to
you, where you lie, with your clothes
still on. and asks you to take tine
pressure"
Then they lift you on a four-wheeled
cart, and roll you to the operating the
alter. They take on your clothes there.
remember l liked to look at the
nurses and surgeons; they looked so
good In their clean white clothes.
Then they stick hollow needles into
you, which hurt a good deal, and you
take the pressure. After n while, they
begin cutting away the bruised and
maybe rotten flesh. removing the old
cloth, pieces Of dirt, ard SO forth, and
scrnping away the spllnters OF bone.
You think for sure you are going to
bleed 10 death. The blood PUSHES
through you like lightning, and II you
get n sight OF yourself, you Fan feel
yourself turning pale. Then they hurry
you TO your bed, and cover you over
with blankets and hot-wnter bottles.
They raise your bed ON chairs, so the
blood VIII u up toward YOU head.
and inter a while. your eyes open and
the doctor says, "Oul. oul, II yiyra."
meaning that you stlll had some time
TO spend before finally going west.
The treatment We got In the hospital
was great. We received cigarettes, to-
bacco, matches. magazines. and Glenn
clothes. The men do not talk about
their wounds much, and everybody
tries to be happy and show II. The
food was fine, and there was lots OF II.
do not think there were ms doc.
tors In the world better than ours, ana
they were always trying to make
things easy for us. They did not rir
the dressings on your wounds like
some OF the butchers do In some OF our
d%ispensaries that l know OF, but took
them on carefully. Everything vas
very clean and sanitary, aud some OF
the hospitals had sun pnrlors, which
were well used, you can be sure.
Some Of the men made toys and
fancy articles, such rs button hooks
and piper knives. They made the
bundles from empty shell cases. or
shrnpnel, o pieces Of zeppellns, or
anything else picked up along the
front.
When they are getting well. the men
learn harness making, mechanical
drawing, telegraphy, gardening, poul.
try raising, typewriting, bookkeeping
! and tho men teach the nnrsah how 10