The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-11-07

ike any other day IN the history OF
the world, when war torn nations
paused and contemplated the awful
ruin that had been wrought we
recall that each individual who was
a party To that conflict experienced
sensations which have never yet and
probably never will be accurately de-
scribed.
So many different classes of indi-
viduas were affected-the buddy up
front, crouched in his little shelter
hole, what were his sensations as
the realization came to him that he
could walk abroad in daylight and not
invite the "rat-ta-ta-tat-tat of the
Bosche Sunners? Consider the wound
ed man in the hospital-the man who
had made all but the supreme sacrifice
try to realize what his sensations
were as he considered the meaning
of the armistice, as he was brought
face TO face with the fact that the
war was over and that before long
he would be back in his own home
town, trying to keep up the respon>
sibilties of citizenship and hold his
place in the keen competition of life
handicapped by the loss of a hand
OK leg. Think of the fellow whose out
fit was in reserve, under orders to
move back into the sincerely
glad that the necessity for going
back had been abolished, yet re-
gretting that the Hun was to be let
IF thus lightly.
And the men in the navy-what
blessed relief they felt when thcy
realized that the nightmare of peri
scopeNon the starb'd quarter" would
he no more. And there We're others;
the air service, night bombers all set
for the raid on Berlin the quorter-
masters corps, handling endless guam
titles Of supplies. iar from the battle
lines mayhap, or in the very shadow
OF the big guns. The motor transport
corps, the tank corps, the signal
corps, all OF entry yourself to
imagine what their real thoughts
were as they remarked "ah, quit
your kidding, there amt no such
thing"
And then there were the men in
the camps in the United States, train
ing. preparing themselves to take the
place of those who had fallen-con-
slider them as they realized that the
methods they had learned would never
be used, remember that many of them
sincerely felt that they had been cheat
ed that they had been deprived of
the great opportunity" Remember
how hard it was for them to be-
l.eve that the fact that there were
two million of them ready to join their
buddies overseas was one OF the things
which made the Hun want TO stop,
which made him realize what an aw-
fu drubbing he would receive when
they all got into action
In those days of suffering and
strife, days Of military talk and uni
forms and bandases and drives and
war work and tense expectancy there
alsfrwas the civilian who stood back of
tlfc=whoe armed force OF the nation,
whose money made it all possible;
whose sons and daughters had serv-
ed and died that this moment might
arrive-consider their thoughts as they
realized the significance OF the thing
of wh ch the newspapers had been
talking for days.
Again. and let us bow our heads
with the thought-those who knew
their loved ones would not come back,
those 10 whom war had brought ach-
ing hearts and saddened homes con-
sder their thoughts as they realized
that no more homes would be sad
dened a. theirs had been, that no
more would other parents be called
on 10 face what they had faced as
they tried to picture those last min
utes when a sturdy hoy in khaki
had given everything that liberty and
free government might live.
Below we have the thoughts Of sew
eral Some bear the marks OF war
blasted lives. some have written in
lighter vein, and they all serve their
pursose. As you read them. pause
ht your thoughts 90 back two years
and remember that Armistice Day is
day Of rejoicing. but that bigger and
better than that it is a day when we
pauses and each in humble way give
respect to those who have not come
back.