331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . mill. A farewell banquet was staged Wednesday night at the Elks Club wherethere were speeches and much of the old line. When it came to mustering out, the men found it a very prosaic event afterall. Westerbo and Sgt. Quimby, Ross and Sgt. Quick,Tillman and Corp. Ritsher,all very submissively left the realm of martial law and went their way withoutany Phillipics against militarism, without any torrents of wild abuse being hurledagainst unfortunate non-coms and officers. Corp. Brokish, Sgt. Smith, Formon andthe Captain peacefully went their
331st field artillery, United States army, 1917-1919 . mill. A farewell banquet was staged Wednesday night at the Elks Club wherethere were speeches and much of the old line. When it came to mustering out, the men found it a very prosaic event afterall. Westerbo and Sgt. Quimby, Ross and Sgt. Quick,Tillman and Corp. Ritsher,all very submissively left the realm of martial law and went their way withoutany Phillipics against militarism, without any torrents of wild abuse being hurledagainst unfortunate non-coms and officers. Corp. Brokish, Sgt. Smith, Formon andthe Captain peacefully went their several ways without their lives being en-dangered whatsoever. There was only one thing left in the minds of the men of what had been theBattery, it was not vengeance, no, nor even the thought of a good square meal,it was Home! Fitz went up to Duluth and his business, Davy Thompson set off with everyintention of going out to Wyoming. Ross Grim left to make up lost time on. Es Playground on the Duca the farm in which he had already put so much work and thought. Barnes madea line for Grand Forks and Sgt. Formon hit for Byron, 111. It seemed as thoughthe Battery had scattered to the winds and yet the men were nearer to one anotherthan they had ever been before. Now that the work was done and the littleannoyances of the everyday grind forgotten, the men could only remember howcloselv they had lived together and how intimately they had come to know eachother. They were different men from the fellows that set off for Camp Grantin the course of the last year and a half. They had grown as a result of beingwith one another. The friendships which had sprung up almost unconsciouslywere deeper rooted than they ever dreamed. They had felt, each one of them,when they came into the army, that they were going among strangers who wouldnot understand them and who would make their life disagreeable. It was hardto forget themselves and think in terms of the group. Now, as
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