The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . Alan Seeger, the Poet Seeger, serving in the Foreign Legion, met hiis deatii before we entered ttie war 243 ON THE WESTERN FRONT up containing the names of those whose bodies had not beenrecovered owing to a kind of fighting that so often destroyedevery vestige of the human form. To these cemeteries inFrance relatives could make pilgrimages, for it had becomequite out of the question longer to consider any plan of dig-ging up American dead and sending b
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . Alan Seeger, the Poet Seeger, serving in the Foreign Legion, met hiis deatii before we entered ttie war 243 ON THE WESTERN FRONT up containing the names of those whose bodies had not beenrecovered owing to a kind of fighting that so often destroyedevery vestige of the human form. To these cemeteries inFrance relatives could make pilgrimages, for it had becomequite out of the question longer to consider any plan of dig-ging up American dead and sending bodies back to Americain large numbers. A Red Cross man went through thesecemeteries taking photographs of every single grave to besent to the soldiers family. Many hundreds had to beburied in blankets or in burlap, not in coffins, so that ex-humation was impossible. AVhen a soldier died, his gravewas temporarily marked with his name on a sort of shingle;. JOYCE KILMERS GRAVE IN FRANCEKilmers grave is the one at the right later came men of the Graves Registration Service to put upa small wooden cross with an aluminum name plate, fiveinches long by two and a half inches wide. A level lawnwas usually chosen for a cemetery, each grave being six and 244 FOCHS GREAT VICTORIES three-quarters feet long and two feet wide, the graves onefoot apart, wdth two rows, head to head, with a forty-inchpath between rows. When there were 800 graves in a ceme-tery, a flagstaff was provided.^^ Suggestions were made thatthese consecrated spots should be made less like cemeteries
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