Evening star., 1927-07-17

that one Of his kidneys bu-st. He
will be here until October, maybe
longer.
Rosario Onteri has been in this
country about IL years, and half of
them have been spent in hospitals
He came over from Sicily two years
before this country entered the war,
went to France with the Fifth Divi-
sion, Company X. Goth Infantry, and
was gassed in the Argonne. Since
he got back to the United States
after the war he has been in hos
pitals five years suffering from the
effects of the gas. He has been at
Walter Reed five weeks.
First Sergt. Leroy Hogan of the
1920 Machine Gunners, with the Goth
Division. is about at the end of his
war. He was in the thick Of the fight
ing for nine months, in the second bat
tie of the Marine, at Chateau Thierry
and in the Argonne, and he was gass-
ed, shellshocked and wounded three
times with shrapnel. Since the armi-
Stice-he was in the trenches on No
vember 11-he has spent four years
in various hospitals. He was one of
the first at Walter Reed, and came
back several months ago for physio-
therapy treatments of his foot which
the shrapnel left as stiff as a piece of
wood He says Walter Reed is the
only hospital that has done anything
to get the stiffness out of his foot and
he expects it to be all right in few
months.
Some Not So Lucky.
But they are not all so lucky-if n
man is lucky to be getting we'll after
tn oIc Inh
has been in a bed at Walter Reed for
three years. There is something
wrong with his heart and he hasn't
been able to get out of bed since the
war ended. He was a sergeant of
Company K, Goth Infantry, and hasn't
a single relative in this country. The
hospital is the only home he has.
Cecil Mole, 30Sth Engineers. is lift
ed out Of bed into a wheel chair every
morning. He never gets out of the
chair except to be lifted back into bed.
He has osteomylitis in his foot and
except for 13 days mas been at Wal
ter Reed for two and one-half years.
Gurney I. Hightower is another
''osteo" patient. 1t started in his foot
as the result Of an injury and came
back in his jaw. He was in the Goth
Photo Section, Air Service.
Wounded Saving Buddy.
Sergt. Augustus A. Abernathy, 3Oth
Division. went into a heavy machine
gun fire to bring a wounded comrade
back to his lines. They gave him the
d. S. c. for that. But he collected a
load of shrapnel in his hip and was
gassed as well, and he has spent five
years In hospitals for that. He was
in National Sanitorium, Johnson City,
Tenn, for three years with tubercu-
losis as result of the gas and he has
been operated upon twice. He is re-
covering from his second operation at
Walter Reed and expects to get out
in another six months.
There are about 1000 men at Wal.
ter Reed. but most of them stay a
short time and leave. There Is only
a handful Of those who never leave,
or II they leave usually come back.
Some of them are not there now: q
rev or these are permanently cured
and others will return, perhaps many
times. Most Of those there now have
good chances of going away patched
up well enough to get along. They
have had their share of the wars
hangover.
Women Keep Spirits Up.
They have all had their share of
hard luck. these permanent resi-
dents" They might be morose about
their nisfortunes, but they are not.