Pacific service magazine . old onearm behind them and pusheach other, all the timekeeping their mouths goingmore than their hands. You would imagine a con-versation limited to a vo-cabulary of twenty words,mixed-up English, Frenchand the profane words be-ing German, would be alittle bit tedious. Well, itis if you had to talk. Butwhen you stroll along witha little French creation onyour arm, watching what she callsfoolesh soldat at their play, with littlechance to talk on account of the buglesplaying and the French singing, I havefound that ten words were sufficient tocarry on the conversation.
Pacific service magazine . old onearm behind them and pusheach other, all the timekeeping their mouths goingmore than their hands. You would imagine a con-versation limited to a vo-cabulary of twenty words,mixed-up English, Frenchand the profane words be-ing German, would be alittle bit tedious. Well, itis if you had to talk. Butwhen you stroll along witha little French creation onyour arm, watching what she callsfoolesh soldat at their play, with littlechance to talk on account of the buglesplaying and the French singing, I havefound that ten words were sufficient tocarry on the conversation. Speaking of the French singing, thechildren get together in crowds of aboutten or fifteen and sing their national airsand Madelon and Tipperary. They turnout fair music, too. This is without anyprompting or persuasion. Then the olderones form arm in arm and come down thestreet with a song and some kind of adance. They cant figure why a soberAmerican doesnt want to sing at the topof his voice while walking along Dan K. Coyle, C Co., 322d Field Battalion, Signal Corps, 91st Division, A. E. F. (Formerly of San Jose District.) Francis L. Mix of Solano District wroteto Mr. Sedgwick under date of September15th as follows: I guess I am truly entitled to the titleof vet now as I have been engaged infour different and more or less widelyseparated sectors, and in the last twotook part in some of the hardest fightingof the war, at least in which Americantroops have been engaged. We did onething which I understand was exceptionalin itself, and that was to take part in twotough offensives in succession, and theFrench claim that there are very fewtroops whose morale is capable of stand-ing such a test. Our division received anumber of citations for its work and ourregiment and even our own particularbattery came in for special mention for rapid and efficient work.* * * The fighting in whichwe took part in the last twoinstances was of a veryopen character and wewere constantly ad
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