The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-05
Wait ~ Camp Merritt Is
lrksome-Eager for the
Start Tulsaward.
LAST LAP SEEMS LONGEST
Long and Strenuous Adycn-
turc Soon VIII Come
to an End
By sERGT IAMEs 4 nRILL

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CAMP MERRITT. y. j May A.
| Among the Tulsa ambulancers to-
| day there Is "A FUN ncdgod hunCh
| that this IS the last sunday they viii
spond away from homCfulk NCNi
Sunday everyone expects to be eat
ms dinner with mother, wife. sweet
heart Or friend
It's the last long mile that Is The
hardest. ana the imbsssincors are
at that stage Of their cnyiable ad-
Ventures.
/ And It's a mile only IN a ngIratiyc
manner II began on the ninth day
| of April with a hike from \euCnahr
| to HlnzIg- ann RheIn. II continued
! In "A y hodT ride over 500 hlio-
motors OF rlckety railroads through
| conquered. rcconqucred and unCou-
queret lands to the gigantic cV-
! harkation noifr at l3rest The last
/ mia" dragged on through the mo
notonous leagues OF the Atlantic 10
| the eastern shores Of the United
States and by. another hike and an
/ other visit at Camp Merritt IN New
| Jersey where this Is written
The last mile H. not over yet. and
weary are the travellers They must
| yet go through journey OF some
| 500 miles 10 their demobllzd ton
/ pomt, and then the last few re
naming hundreds OF miles to Tulsa
and To the arms OF their loved ones
a. home.
And with that Homecoming the
last long mile viii nave been fin
| ished. The reality viii he the return
TO civilian pursuits, 10 the ever deep
cnlng shadows NJ drcamr- will be
swept quickly ,let Us pray the
i -. 4
more. lived through such events and
such hardships as may occur only
TO citizen soldiers cast abruptly into
the CruX Of the worlds most ghastly
war and permitted TO live through It,
Among the FIRST over.
The Tulsa ambulHnCers brdved the
| L boat infested sea with America =
first 100000" offering to- France
| They saw the working out Of Amer
ica's great fighting machine In Eu-
rope almost from It's embryonic
stage They were with tho division
that. enduring memorable hardships
during It's first foreign winter re-
ceived training with the poilus. and
| straightwav went into The lines,
| holding down the first American
held sector. and holding 1t down vel
| for longer time than ever since
/ an American division has been on a
| front continually
| with tho Rainbow division the
am hulancers took part succesSivcly
| thereafter IN the superb Aisne-
/ Marne defensive, the glorious coun-
| ter offensive that eliminated the
| Chateau Thierry salient the light
ming stroke that wiped out the St
! Mihiel salient, and the final grue-
some grind Of smashing up through
the ArFonno 10 the heights of the
Meuse before Sedan. where came an
end to the struggle
Up 10 that point tho ambuldncerr
had not thought much OF The home
going They had bocn living from
one battle to another from one
days mud TO another, even from the
breaking of one hostile shell to an
other Then came peace, the tom
porary that must yield to the perma
nent. and from that point the
thoughts OF the Tulsa ambulancers
have eyer flown hopefully toward
home and home coming
Thorc is a kindof ddae mat ron
ders BIT dim the things that hap
pen to actual participants in a war,
at least To those who have fought
long IN foreign band And 10 was
CONTINUED on rNGE ELEVEN