Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-02

5 We're observing this holiday
tx home.
For example, there was 1t.
Buddy S. Sauer OF Dayton. The
lieutenant shifted his shoulders up
and down as he squinted through
an artillery battery control scope
al a forward observation post.
~ funny way to spend New
Years" he remarked II thought
I'd be home by this time, drink
ing eggnog. Well, here's TO
quick end 90 those krauts out
there--the whole mess Of EN-
that's all I ask for l9i5."
SUFFER IN TIE COLD
A clcarng station tent for the
wounded, which l visited, was only
a little warmer and less wind
blown than the white-blanketed
world outside
A kid with Shrapnel torn through
his right arm was waiting his
turn 10 be sent back. He frowned
with every twiuge Of pain. His
face was pinched and red from
the biting cold. His eyes were
Ttnged with dirt and red and
watery But he grinned and said:
ITS nothing much. just a
hunka shrapnel. We call that
the million-dollar wound up
here. IL doesn't kill you, but ID
gets you out of the foXholes for
bit.
"Cripes," he added, there's
been plenty Of times l prayed
for n wound like this. But now
I'm sitting here figuring ways
To get back to what's left of my
outfit and trying TO outsmart
the needles"
lie grinned sheepishly and he
added
It's almost New Years, isn't
II? Well, a fellow can make
resolutions and turn new leaves
and stuff, cant he? I'm start
ing right now 10 say nice things
l should have said to a-lOt of
fellows in the outfit. There are
80 many gone now, and you
can't ever tell them what good
guys they were. but can tell
those that are left"
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
He paused for a while and then
said slowly:
Pm going 10 fix those dirty
krauts and fix them good"
1t. Lawrence A. Carr of Chi
cago was just pulling out with a
tank destroyer outfit. Ever since
Dec. l6, when the German often
sive broke through the American
lines, 1t. Carr and his tank de-
stroyers have toured the grand
circuit Of the front. plugging holes
and helping out where they were
most needed.
His eyes and the eyes Of his
men were filled with fatigue, but
they all frightened at the news
that all was going well along the
front and that the Germans were
on the defensive. 1t. Carr said:
That's enough New Years
celebration for me. Boy, IL
really looked bad for while
there. They'll hit us again. but
when they try IL we'll knock
them into 1945.
That was good stuff about
those boys at BastOgne. I'd like
10 have seen the German com
mander's face when he got the
answer To his ultimatum, Nuts
10 YOU
THAT was the right answer
and this time next year well
all be home boring our families
and friends OF death with lies
about what we did on New
Years 1945."
W IN THE SKIES
High overhead the silver
sliverS Of big bombers droned
cast in Il ~ formation. Be-
tween artillery bursts. American
tank fire huscd a wooded ridge
across narrow valley. The
laundering echoes of the Ameri-
canguns carried the same mes
sage TO the Germans from all
the doughboys in the line" Nuts
10 you, HitlCr.
Along the rest Of the front the
answer was the same S/Sgt.
David +. Thompson of Columbus.
o. promised from a slit trench
200 yards from the huns:
Those Germans thank they
can scare us with these SIS
characters In black suits, but
our answer il nuts. We can