The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-10
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gave John and myself a chance to get our first real souvenirs"
 On rejoining the company we found them in dry ravine, resting from the mornings work At about 5:30 that afternoon we continued the attack, and it was then we suffered our greatest casualties. Our captain was mor- staIly wounded, and John was one of the three who went out under the most severe shell and machine gun fire and carried him to the first-aid station where he died a few minutes after For this act of bravery John, with the other two men. was personally cited for decoration by Major Kaiser, who was at that time our battalion com mander. Why he never received that decoration I do not know. Just one of the very numerous cases where the records were lost, I suppose. After advancing to our objective we were halted after two-thirds of our com panv had been killed or wounded. How John and myself ever pulled through that without also getting on the cas- uaIty list can never understand. Two days later we were relieved by the French and marched to the rear, where we rested a few days in small town called Bouillancy.
 About the 18th of July we went aboard the train, and at the end of that journey found ourselves in Nancy. Three or four days later we hiked to the front again, but this proved to be 8 very quiet sector. Our platoon was stationed in that part of the line which ran through Pont-a-Mousson, on the Moselle river.
 Being relieved from there on August 16, we hiked for three days, ending up in Sovillier We stayed here for a couple of weeks, when we went through some rather intensive training, preparing, as we aft erward learned, for the St. Mihiel of fensive.
 Leaving here about September l, we marched by night and slept by day, and on the evening of the 11th found ourselves again in the lines, and the next morning, following the we'll known barrage, which started at l g. m, we were chasing Germans again. This was a very easy drive compared to Soissons, however, and our com pany suffered very few casualties.
 We were relieved here on the 18th and marched to Blenad-les-Tard, mar Tou1 where we rested for a few days.
 In the latter part of September we left here, by train again, and debarked at Chalons-sur- -Marne. From there we hiked to Courtisols, staying there a few days, then left for the front, where we arrived on the night of October l. This was in the Champagne sector and the fight that followed is known as the capture of Blanc Mont ridge, and was one of the fiercest battles we were in This furnished John and some more cause for wOnderment- how was it we came through that one without getting hit!
 Being relieved from here on the lOth we went to French camp for few days, then started hiking again toward the front. We marched for twenty three hours straight, and were almost at the front again when the orders were changed, and we took our time in covering the distance back to our starting place. This is known to us as "the crazy hike in the Champagne. We had no more than arrived back o1 the lines again when (about the 26th of October) we boarded trucks at Suippes and were taken farther down the line to our right We were then in the Meuse-Argonne. After a very hard hike we bivouacked in a wood where we stayed until the attack. John and were 'bunkies" at that time, as we had been most of the time before then; and while we were lying in those woods he would often talk of the fight which was coming He told me then that he felt queer" about this drive Of course I scoffed at that, and told him we would pull through all right; but at the same time I had to admit that we couldn not Ego to the front forever" without them finally "get ting" us. At times he would seem de spondent, for he had told me that his brother had been killed, and he was