The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-01-09

can flag on my breast, q French fla,
beneath 1t and beneath that the wal
cross. He kissed me on both cheeks
Of course, which was taking advantage
of cripple. But it is the usual thint
with the French, as you know NEAR
| the kissing, not the meanness tt
| crfpp1es.
When he had pinned the medal or
he said he thanked me from the bot
tom Of his heart for the French people
and also thanked all the American.
| who had come over from their owl
land to help a country with which
most Of them were not connected: He
said 1t was war In which many IA
lions weres taking part, but in wltcf
there were just two ideas, freedt IL
and despotism, and a lot more thfays
that cannot remember. He fint~- +c
by saying that he wished he couF@o
crate all Of us. q" y I'd
OF course it was great stuff for 4
and I thought I was the real
sure enough, but I could not d"
thinking of the remark I have J. i
here in the States-"I thank you tnd
the whole family thanks you" Ard it
was hard not to laugh. Also it sean ed
funny to me, because I did not riGht'' y
know just what they were giving' z =
the medal for-though it was for I =
of two things-and I do not kr os,'r ii
this day. But I thought it wou' =
be polite to ask, so I let it go dt =
There were twelve other nava "
GERS who were present and the
all the other people did lot Of e.
ing and vived me to a fare-you - ,'ii
1T was great stuff, altogether, :,
should have liked to get medal fn y
day.
One day I received letter FROG, :
the Foreign Legion and with who
had been pretty chummy. His l ( 9
was partly in French and part ! =!
English. It was all about who i
been killed and who had been ". IL
ed. He also mentioned MI, :, ~
death, which he had heard aboui {. ,rd
about my receiving the Crolfuo"de
Guerre. I was wishing he haG@9tid
something about Brown. whom III &C
not heard from and who knew " lld
visit me if he had the chance, IN
But two or three days late 80 1oe
another letter from the same r1341, aud
when when I opened it out tumb.et, IN lY'e Pc.
was the photograph of a man CT. 0ied
with bayOnets, but when I looa'' at
it closely saw it was Bras1 C I
tainted then, just like a 81 j In s5ss
When came to could hsE 9*y3.,I ,Ee
myself think about it. TWO GSSi ny
pals gone! 1t hurt. me so m2lGls' 20
think of it that I crushed the letter
up in my hand, but later on cCpld
read parts of it. 1t said theyi.c9A
found Brown this way near Dixt4O l.
about two days after he had bee =
ported missing. So three Of US e y
over and two stayed there. It seN' =
very strange to me that both Of ~
pals should be crucif1ed and If VIII,
l do not know whas
would think about it. Il made e
sick and kept me from recovering ~ =
fast as would have done otherw
Both Brown and Murray were ga
pals and very good men In 41eftf
I often think Of them both and 13l:lfs(
the things we did together but III @fn,
I have tried not to think hbou, OF ,r'i
much because it is very sad tt9f.Fq"s
what torture they must have II iF"l9
stand. They were both of great 4 ~
to this country. ~ 81
The American consul visite0s Fl
quite often and I got to calliD5o = ~
Sherlock because he asked so fbis3': ~
questions. We played lots of & n
together, mostly with dice and h 7,sc
great time generally. After I beI&4t
he argued with me lat
I had seen enough, aud Though I res
did think so-however much disliFi(
what 1 had seen-he got fay discha!l y
from the service on account of pLE'
ical inability to discharge the u5s~;
duties. After had been, at the =, - =
pital for a little over a month ~ g
from 1t, after a little pars3y
in my ward with everyone taking pat
and all the horns blowing and all the
records except my favorite dirge
played one after another.
Sherlock arranged everything for
passage to New YORK, ciotn~
ing, etc. l ran up to st. Nazaire and
saw my grandmother, loafed around
a while and also visited Lyons.
After a short time I returned to
Brest and got my passage on the
Georgia for New York. had three
trunks with me full Of things had
picked up around Europe and had
been keeping with my grandmother.
Among my belongings were several
things I should like to show by plo-
tographs in this book, but no one hut
mermaids can see them 7 CIV, Tor down
to the locker of Davy Zones they went
CTO BE CONTINUED,
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