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It is needless to say no one volunteered, because it is anything but a cushy Job. I began to feel uncomfortable as I knew it was getting around for my turn. Sure enough, with another grin, he said: "Empey, you and Wheeler are due, so come down into my dugout for instructions at six o'clock."
The next morning, the Captain sent for me and informed me: "Empey, as a recruiting Sergeant you are a washout," and sent me to a training depot. After arriving at this place, I was hustled to the quartermaster stores and received an awful shock.
I immediately got busy, made a desk out of biscuit tins in the corner of the billet, and put up a sign "Empey & Wallace Theatrical Co." About twenty of the section, upon reading this sign, immediately applied for the position of office boy. I accepted the twenty applicants, and sent them on scouting parties throughout the deserted French village.
Here I am, an American, in khaki, who came four thousand miles to fight for your King and Country, and you, as yet, have not enlisted. Why don't you join? Now is the time. "This argument ought to get many recruits, Empey, so go out and see what you can do." He then gave me a small rosette of red, white, and blue ribbon, with three little streamers hanging down.
I was sitting in the billet writing home to my sister telling her of my wonderful exploits while under fire-all recruits do this. The Sergeant-Major put his head in the door of the billet and shouted: "C. of E. outside for church parade!" I kept on writing. Turning to me, in a loud voice, he asked, "Empey, aren't you C. of E.?" I answered, "Yep."
Frost stopped at my bed and said: "Well, Empey, if you want me to try and see what I can do with that scar, I'll do it, but you are taking an awful chance." I answered: "Well, Doctor, Steve Brodie took a chance; he hails from New York and so do I."
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