The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No38 (September 22, 1922)] . h at Var-ennes, with the shat-tered arches of the oldedifice just visible inthe right background American history. Any three would do—any three in that tormented country-side that reaches from Verdun andDun-sur-Meuse on the east to LesIslettes and Grand-Pre on the let us go back to Montfaucon andVarennes and Romagne. Of all these, it is only in Montfauconthat no restoring hand has yet beenlifted. In that hill-top town, aroundwhich (and later about which) the 37thand 79th Divisions fought so fiercely,everything is as we
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No38 (September 22, 1922)] . h at Var-ennes, with the shat-tered arches of the oldedifice just visible inthe right background American history. Any three would do—any three in that tormented country-side that reaches from Verdun andDun-sur-Meuse on the east to LesIslettes and Grand-Pre on the let us go back to Montfaucon andVarennes and Romagne. Of all these, it is only in Montfauconthat no restoring hand has yet beenlifted. In that hill-top town, aroundwhich (and later about which) the 37thand 79th Divisions fought so fiercely,everything is as we left it—the starkskeleton of the church, the deep, heav-ily-walled German dug-outs, the ob- 17. i. official photo IT was in the misty morning of Sep-tember 26, 1918, that the largestnumber of American soldiers everassembled in the field began thatslow, costly, painful advance whichlasted through six ugly weeks, led tothe gates of Sedan and was writtendown in history as the Battle of theArgonne. Now, even after four years,for the people whose homes and fields.
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