The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No30 (July 28, 1922)] . a new note of color when the blue-jackets and the leathernecks turn upto give a real sea-goin welcome to Ad-miral Beatty and Admiral Coontz andDevil Dog Jack Lejeune. That got tothis hard-boiled old shellbacks heart,too, somehow. So far from tidewater—you couldnt get much farther—andyet to see all that navy blue flash out! That afternoon the whole town be-gan to hum, starting with a salvo ofcheers in the big Convention Hall togreet Diaz of Italy and Baron Jacquesof Belgium. After dark that evening we allpoured out toward the depot.

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The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No30 (July 28, 1922)] . a new note of color when the blue-jackets and the leathernecks turn upto give a real sea-goin welcome to Ad-miral Beatty and Admiral Coontz andDevil Dog Jack Lejeune. That got tothis hard-boiled old shellbacks heart,too, somehow. So far from tidewater—you couldnt get much farther—andyet to see all that navy blue flash out! That afternoon the whole town be-gan to hum, starting with a salvo ofcheers in the big Convention Hall togreet Diaz of Italy and Baron Jacquesof Belgium. After dark that evening we allpoured out toward the depot. Homefolks and Legionnaires by the hundredsjammed into the big waiting-room, homefolks and Legionnaires by the thou-sands filled the big plaza out in frontand overflowed the clay banks beyondto welcome a little gray-haired manfrom France, who won a great war bykeeping calm and smoking his pipe,and a Missouri lad from Laclede,named Pershing. The log says we didnt lay down anyred plush carpet, European style, forour guests to walk on out of the train-sheds

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