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Updated: July 14, 2025
"Field hospital, Sixth Corps," he said, with a strong Hibernian accent "An' how de ye loike it, Johnny?" "Better than some others I've seen," I managed to articulate faintly. "Who won?" "Divil a wan of us knows," he admitted frankly, "but your fellows did the retratin'." It was an old, old story to all of us by that time, and I closed my eyes wearily, content to ask no more.
Their humor in the trenches, their love of songs, and their dash in action are manifested in all their letters. An English soldier, writing home, says that even in the midst of a bayonet charge an Irishman can always raise a laugh. "Look at thim divils retratin' with their backs facin' us," was an Irish remark about the Germans that made his fellows roar.
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