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Newspaper
The Gallup Herald
Location
Gallup, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
8
A recruit faces his first shock in France as soldiers trap cooties and share crude banter. An officer writes amid the itch while his runner delivers a letter to Miss Alice Somebody in London, showing romance survives even in trench misery.
A memoir fragment describes identity disks issued to recruits a red neck chain and a left wrist plate. The disks list rank name number battalion and religion. the narrator discovers he boxed himself into a compulsory church parade by naming a religion. He recalls the sergeant major calling him to the parade as he wrote home.
The narrator details the morning draft assignment to B company under Old Pepper, ten days of rest and trench work, a three day march toward the front, and the first baptism by shell fire as German artillery scars the village. He endures cold, rats, and fear in Whisky Street and the front line before finally accepting frontline life and longing for home.
A soldier recounts a dawn church parade ordered by a sergeant major. After forming a semicircle around a chaplain, a German Fokker circled overhead while the field milled with rifles bayonets and tin helmets, then the unit marched back to billets and played football all afternoon.
The narrative describes Empey taking his initial firing step in a trench as bullets whiz overhead. He quickly learns the danger and adopts a motto urging calm and perseverance.
A Milwaukee Sentinel poem reflects on the flag and the national anthem inspiring courage amid oppression and conflict. It references Old Glory and the Star Spangled Banner while praising veterans and national unity.
A speaker defends the flag as a symbol of loyalty and patriotism, arguing desecration defiles not just cloth but national ideals. He recalls the American Creed and contrasts flag symbolism with Britain and Prussian symbols, urging unity in defense of liberty.
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