"I was there" - with the Yanks in France by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
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Base port stevedores--Volunteers from the South who work eight hours a day for seven days a week--Bordeaux/18 [Illustration: A 26th Division Wagon Train...] A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood--1918 Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war [Illustration: The end of his service] [Illustration: Veterans of the Marne] POILU When we left the transport Back in St. Nazaire, Second thing you asked us,-- "Quand finit la guerre?" Didn't know your lingo You weren't hard to get, Peace was what you wanted-- And a cigarette. Then up in the trenches It was just the same, "When's it going to finish?" Didn't seem quite game. Then we saw you strafing, |
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