The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-03-05
NEWS v OF. THE THE. ......
16STH INFANTRY
MR.. Frank Stock Receives Follow
ing Extracts From Member of
Famous Division Now on Dime
DENIsoN BOYS, ARE MEMBERS
Boys Of This Division Can Tell Of
Every Battle or Scrap, and They
r...t' - Are All. Heroes

written home lby=,FEost, Patterson an
Iowa boy who is now serving with the
army of occupation an the Rhine with
the 16Sth Infantry. In as much as
several Denison boys are with the
42nd division she thought the article
would be of interest to relatives and
friends. The article follows:
"The IS. "A. T.. G.. are all right in
some ways but to my mind 1t would
have been better to take those from
IA to 1S years old. Six months mill
tary drill is good for anybody, our
laddie has his coming If have to
drill him myself in the back yard.
-"You ask if l can tell why the vol
unteers are down on the drafts. Well
here it is
1--WE came over here with a COM
pany of $50 fine boys-for an example
there are Al of those boys with us
now-,lot all dead but too many will
never come home again and darned
nice boys too.
e. eve have one drafted man who
has gone thru it all with us and few
then who have gone thru most OF 1t.
"Then we have 120 men who have
come to US since the armistice was
signed. Well these are all allowed
to wear the Rainbow. They go home
wearing the insignia and when asked
what outfit they belong to they say
the 16Sth Inf. AZ Div. They can tell
about every battle or scrap that we
ever had from hearing us talk about
it. Amt they heroes? We go home
a company of 200, are honored and all
that. Does that give our volunteers
who were wounded and sent home or
to the S. o. S. fair shake? Are
the boys who saw it all getting due
credit? Cant see that they are
They are stuck into Casual Co. and
sent home alone and let these ducks
who have done nothing get all the
honor. I, for one of many Of the
boys who enlisted and came over
here early, don't care for this sob
stuff and blow outs, with so many or
out boys missing but these drafted
dudes want it ALL 1t makes them
think they saw something. Don't
talk selected man to volunteer IL
you are ever where there is one, re-
member that. ~
"Give. the boys who are coming
home the very best you've got.
Nothing is too good for them. They
get only what you give them while
the others (the selected mem get the
honor they have won.
Don't worry about US boys and
the girls--I might not get married
for ten years after 1 get home. l
have learned quite a bit over here
and have more sense .byifar than when
IEcame over. want better edu-
cation and I'm going to get 1t too.
4. "f'd have you know the 16Sth boys
are not tin soldiers any more-we
have learned to fight over here when
they try to hand us anything-Well!
IF l ever set foot in the good old
u. S. A. again the Statue of Liberty
will have to right about face to see
me again.
"We're having an easy time here
good beds, good, eats, little work but
who wants it? We want to go home.
"I'll fight for Uncle Sam any day
on home soil and by fortifying our
coasts a little we can defy the whole
world. But when they want me for
foreign service therell be two miss
inc. me and the fellow that is afteer
me. d."
"You folks will never know what
the boys who are coming home now
lucky guys-have gone thru nor
will you ever know what MUD spells.
Something queer aobut the water
here on the Rhine; If you drink it
soon after eating an apple it will make
YOU sick. It's full of mineral and for
a little while after taking bath you
don't have a bit OF strength left. Its
fine tho. Is t'.'- = ."..
mo trouble with the Dutch. We
treat them we'll and they let us alone.
They have more freedom than ever
before.
'Id like to hear s. from G.
maybe l could understand him bet
ter now. have more common sense
than I had when I went abroad
this army sure makes a man OF a
kid all right. ... ....l
"Of course there is wonderful
scenery but I'm fed up on that. Tne
only scenery that could interest me
now is a little place l call home.
"Some of Division got off train here
and were complaining at having to
ride "a hours on train. Wonder how
they'd like to hike "a days over 20
to 80 kilos each day. Hard life to
ride "a hours in a train. CD
"Yet-I wouldn't take a million for
the experience I've had if it could be
sold. And I wouldn't take the whole
world and go thru 1t again. .
"The longer we stay over here the
less it will take to satisfy us when
we get home. .....-,s. 81 .s-.
France will always. mean mud to
me. The sunny. part didn't show
itself while was there.
81 believe I'll develop into "a first
class stay at home If Uncle sam Will
ever give me the chance
4 Misses Ruth selander and Emma
Anderson expect to, leave soon for an
extended visit with friends in Los