Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-04
WILD FLOWERS BLOOM
OVER BELLEAU HEROES
Woods Where Americans First Struck Huns Then
Scene Of Carnage, Now Colored With Pink,
White and Delicate Blue.

relentless forgetting of the lush and
i Vas as il the little brothers and
guard to say to all who pass that way:
who died for liberty lies asleep O here
BY these strange woods fur Of wild
i fo,S ID do not wake him. for he is
Once in whilo there is Il grave
Little lit personal belonging. and upon one
esSs TFsah Of ss oa haa wass
70 HIei.iean woed and found name
The OFFICER who took, us over the
, battle iioid told us just how the battle
OF tho pride and flower OF America die
without whimper in those woods.
machine guns were hidden on the hills
and where. the Americans first brok e
a.. me me r h OF 9stablished European
and chasing the Germans as a cour.
ageous and determined sheep dog will
chase pack of wolves.
AMERICANS CHASED HUNS
In CNPRECEDENTED TACTICS
officer, and there is where Cap,ain
So-and-So fell when no was IeaSinn
r r,S men zen, oyer that road the Germans
fled and tried to hide"
But all the time he was ta,s;,,
s,b kept t., thinking of man from Mississ,
'ot his, comrades told me about him him
when he came home. wounded. from,
the En-, battle til of Beileau wood;
and h eva, MAS $. , zig fellow with long legs
did hato to drill. and he Houid not
Keep KEEP mis- gun clean or his tuic but
G AIM IN d ,h we had lot Of fun with
got. to Bel!eau wood that fellow o ~
sight of the Heinies and he grabbed
n II gun ana broke through the brush
alter them l never saw man RIM
SO fast in my life except the Heinies
nc was CHASING. and he always caught
d a2 = VIII I'm; thG I'm and always left one
He would not stop when we dronnod
into the shell holes. He kent rirht
on. on, | believe he has chased some Of
Rhine" "iNcr
SEES PICTURE OF HOY
FROM SOUTH FIGHTING
Il wish 1 cou!a have found which
o. the low graves down there in the
cage OF the Belleau wood was his. the
man from the loT: countries whore tho
slow, broad mississippi sweeps on IFS
proud way to the southern culr
would have gathered a bunch of French
Wild flowers and laid them owe. his
brave heart us
,somehow as stood at the SUNNI,
S Sa ne fs MI! to.day | seemed to sec tina,
'oS WV 'ocutn pushing his
saetermined way through the Under
nrush and out from the shelter Of thn
trees on and on and ever on. He was
not chasing the Germans and tryinr
10 Kill them because he hated there
he had no Unborn enmity for them or
any other race on earth but down in
ms simple home OF comfort and hmm
Die plenty he had heard that the lin
ertE of the world was in danger ava
he had followed the drummiS~ cnns
that beat TO the pulse of his own
neart because he wanted to nut a ston
70 such doings in the world forever.
DEAD PROBABLY WONDER
IL DEATH WAS IN VAIN
Tho soil Of France. enriched BY tho
oiood or her own brave people. has
gwen MIN and thousands OF Americans
lke MIN last resting place. What
rs all the splendor of all these sac
r,nces MADE but Yesterday. bringing to
the troubled world to-day.
when we. left the oattlefields in
sslleau wood we rushed back to Paris
aionS the clean smooth roads. We
scached the city just as the BOYS were
beginning to shout the last edition -.
the evening newspa pers
All about the peace con ference"
the boys cried. And when I read wbs.
the papers had to say concerninc al.
plomatic and secret and clever mani
pulatfon OF this and managing OF tina
l wondered IL the boy from Nfississinai
would not have been JUS, a little ni,n.
z!ed 10 make out what IL was ali abom,
Ine victory is won, the war IS over
ana ne lies dead in Belleau wood.
And now?