Show Lift O 0 A S bo ULC MC Wild Ud flowers grow in Belleau Wood The spectral trees are garbed in green The grass is Insh tho th tho throaty thrush Sings to a n. world at peace serene Where ono short year car ago there thero stood death the death the tho Insatiate Hun jun ni His scythe striking scythe striking to cruh The last fond hope of Christendom Honor to all who served ser no matter how ho The Thc glory lor of or victory is s large enough to share But Dut humbly proud I would my ray theme thome To those brave brae men and true of courage courne rare ruc Who called from factory shop behind tho thc plow flow ned Learned how hoi to die and never ne thought t to yield The Thc glorious Fifth Firth and Sixth U U. S. S Mar Ma MA- r rines I n en The Tho merl All Americans ns of or the battle field Marines Marine of or u Wood You Tou wrote your OU name In golden olden blood 1 across tho the heart ot of France Prance i Semper proving your corps' corps ld farie fam Not ot counting odds stemming tho the Hun aO avance Before DeCaro your sturdy steel your firm set lips HIs The Thc martial glories of or ten t thousand years Went b by the board rd bO passed Into an eclipse Q Beside the Marine within your hard- hard won sepulcher Find peaceful r rest L Have o this se security so- so Your deeds all noble men revere And they have brou brought ht you immor immor- Nearly earl a i. i year Car ago abo Just after the receipt o of the authentic account o of the action in Woods Chateau Thierry Sector the thc Cincinnati Times- Times Star printed d the tho following The fight tight o of the thc American marines i int nt at Chateau Thierry their Thierry-their their attack upon superior forces their final victory and their tremendous loss in proportion to their numbers stands unequaled in the tho annals of or warfare for a n hundred years Other desperate attacks have been made m in man many wars and other fighting forces have o lost as heavily but never nC with victory crowning the red Bacri- Bacri lice fice Pick Picketts Pickett tl charge char at the thc onrush of or the Federals at Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Fredericks- Fredericks burg burb the thc assault Lees Lee's legions made at Malvern bill hill the thc Charge Chare of ot the Light Brigade such Brigade such efforts won undying fame tame but failed of or the tho objective torn objective torn to fragments beaten down the tho attacking troops retired de de- de The Thc marines at Cha eau Thierry lost more than three fourths of their effectives ef effectives ef- ef es but the they won Albuera fought May Ia 16 1811 Is tho the only parallel to Chateau Thierry At Albuera the French had overpowered o 1 practically routed the thc British arm army of or j Lord Beresford As a last resort British infantry the infantry the the famous Fusiliers undertook tho apparently impossible t task of climbing a high hill bill under tinder fire Ire lof of thc tue whole French line pushing the soldiers of or Marshal Soult back across tho the hill bill and thus stemming tho the tide Tho The British w went nt up thc the hill hUl under undera a tornado of oC bullets hurled themselves upon the tho French and not only held them but actually turned them back finally shoved sho them over over- the tho brow of or ortho tho the hill bill and snatched ictor victory from complete complete com corn pleto defeat It was a glorious event in Ln British history and stood until the thc American marines at Chateau Thierry duplicated the superb performance from A to Z Out ot of tho the British who made the chargo charge at Albuera fell a tell a lots loss lotsof of or 75 per cent Out of Americans engaged at nt Chateau Thierry were struck down down down-a a loss of oC 7 per cent These t two tO O battles stand unrivalled as to lo carnage glorious success and antI strange similarity Britain Is justly justl proud of or America Albuera America shall forever forever forever for for- ever hold Chateau Thierry In the thc same magnificent esteem |