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Updated: June 26, 2025
They knew Tim's French was several degrees worse than the usual American doughboy's "frog" talk. "Good thing you couldn't," derided Knowlton. "You'd have had José crucified before we got here." "That's right, gimme the razz!
And many a time we were moved to bless him when his guns far in our rear spoke cheeringly to our ears as they sent whining shells curving over us to fall upon the enemy. It is no discredit to say that many a time the doughboy's eye was filled with a glistening drop of emotion when his own artillery had sprung to action and sent that first booming retort.
The chief note in the President's proclamation which lingered on the doughboy's ear was as follows: "Our gallant armies have participated in a triumph which is not marred or stained by any purpose of selfish aggression. In a righteous cause they have won immortal glory and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind."
The first night we had a casualty, a painful wound in a doughboy's leg from the rifle of a sentry who cried halt and fired at the same time. An officer and party on a handcar had been rattling in from a visit to the front outguard. All the surrounding roads and trails were patrolled.
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