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Show HEROIC . SONS OF HjTI ON American Soldiers, Sailors, Sail-ors, Marines and Aviators Avia-tors Are Home After Duty Gallantly Done. Hundreds Are Maimed for Life by Wounds Received in Some of War's Hard Fighting. NEW YORK, Pec. 11. Welcomed home j as heroic sons of tiie nation, 7710 more soldiers, sailors, marines and aviators representing virtually every state in the union entered fog-bound New York bar- bor today on six large transports from European ports. The talcs these men told about one another wore narrations of American high courage on French bat- tlefields, on the open seas and in the air , above France and England. J lundreds J of the men, maimed for life by wounds 4 received in some of tho war's heaviest J fighting, were hurried to hospitals, and the others, went lo camps, where they wiil ' be demobilized. Some had left America as scarcely more ' than boys, but they came back as men, , either wounded or sound. The wounded included soldiers who had walked with I crutches when their ships sailed from j Europe and, made exultant by their home- j coming, tossed their props aside and dc- 1 clared themselves "cured"' as if by th miracle of their return. 1 HAPPY AT REJOINING ! WIFE AND CHILDREN. I Here was a man with a jaw shot , 1 away and happy in his c:pccLalion of ' rejoining his wife and children. There ! was a man with both feet gone, nmpu- (" tated my sugeons after the bones h;ul ' been splintered by German snoll3 in th j the bloody Argonne forest, but glad, be 1 said, that he had served country and C.ag. , regardless of the cost to himself. Other j men had met with a different misfoi - tune: these were unable lo discern tin torch which. 'the Statue of .Liberty held ( high above the busy harbor and moving t troops. And there were others wiio could not hear the port's whistles and the air- j raid sirens whicji shrieked their wel- f coming demonstrations. Many of thc-e men had eaten their Thanksgiving din ners on ship board and were glad they wore- homo in time to linve their Christmas Christ-mas dinners in their home.1!. AH who returned today were not in military or naval service as actual figin- i ers. There were V. W. C. A. girls who had suffered from gas pon-tonin-, . M. C. A. workers who had strengthened soldiers' sol-diers' morale while under fire, and eh.ip-Jains eh.ip-Jains who had risked their lives and aided American contingent's in destroying Ger- V man machine-gun nceto. Of these, storie.i 1 i without number wore told by troops who r themselves had survived tho war'R dan- gers and spohc modestly of that. fact. i ILLUSTRATIVE OF YANKEE HEROISM. J Illustrative of Vaultce heroism was Lh , account Riven of Captnin C. 10. (ilnze- j brock of Wasblnglon, I). C, a member of ! the T welf i h field a r tiller y. Shot in the f lung, gassed, wounded in the Ior, re- moved to a bus pi lal, Cap! n in Gin .ebioo , arrivals; said, Hlolo. away from his cot, a sseiiiblefl a nnl loi ni. a tta ched a a p- t tain's bars, climbed through n window, j rode thiri-six hours on an army truck if without letting his companions know of his condition, and entered action in the American advance on the St. Mililel hii - lienl. Four days biter, once mot 1 gassed, lie v, a.-i back in tho sn mc ho- , pilal. Asked a bou I this incident, Ca plain ' ' Gbizchrooli paid: "The ediiff surgenu gave me hell. 'If 1 , you don't die," he raid, 'and you; probably . will, you wil be court -martin led.' Mm i r outshje the door I hoard bun laugh, and 1 I luiew It was al! right." f SATLOUS SF'IN YARNS OF SUBMAKINE FIGHTS. If T'.ehind tiie ero.'ses of war whim) many ( of the returned :-nd ici-i wore gifts from : the Ytvv.'Yi government --lie incldcn'j uf doughboy grit and i-acrifjfe which pai-al- )e i he itr redihle and the telUtiy uf wbii.h ,V would f'.ll J-ai:e; of newspapers. Some, nf i the soldier:; and marines described iilejr m!:it rust ff,r the ( lerma ns who epfl L' "KaTiu-rad" and v lio ere l'iiled m their 1 Ira'-Us after iff a ' . K r'ou;i aftiviiler. Sail- ors spun ;.-arr,s, if baliles. with s jb- inarine". A via tors e.plaied how tuey j tempered te:r d :ra ppi on 1 men t ;i 7,ot .. , jea-hing I'h-ance by bringing down enemy ! . alrp.aio-s fiuring rai'ls on England. 'f Trophies oT r ar came homo on I he tu-riu-r!.", l' Adriatle Aah ,1 (P.i-iti-:i . and the "I - ;or'-, Kroorilnnd WELCOME HEROIC SDNS OF NATION i i (Continued from Page One.) " ith the unfulfilled "Got Mit L'ns" legend. These possesions the captors displayed wit ii pride second only to that which they displayed in telling of brave acts performed by particular comrades. Wearing the Croix de Guerre, but modestly mod-estly de- lining to tell why it was awarded award-ed to him, Lieutenant W. W. Kerry oT the 3';:Uh Infantry, another of the wounded. Fa Id he was in the trenches from March 10 September. Klmcr Georpre of Turtle Creek. P.. who said he is "C3 years old." but doesn't look it by a half dozen years, was pointed point-ed out as the youngest hero in the transport. trans-port. Je)rcc was a battalion runner and "rc.eivej his," hs lie expressed it. in the Arson no forest on October 1- Tf c came on board the transport on crutches, but as soon as the ship came in sight of Ami'i ican shores he thn'w them away, declaring he was as good as ever. A ModesJ Hero. Wounded Amcj-i.'an soldiers who arrived ar-rived lie re yesterday from overseas on the steamer Kroonland landed today when the troopship reached her dock after spending the night down the hay. The Kroonlaml. which left Liverpool more than a week aqo, brought sixty-three sixty-three officers and HSiU enlisted men and 1 0J civilians. officers aboard the Kroonland were: Brigadier General 1J. J. Hatch, Captain Walter Camp. Jr., son of the fatuous Vale coach; .Major Robert Pening of the marine corps, Colonel F. It. Hunter of the Third field artillery brigade. Colonel O. F. Harvey of the lt'Sth held artillery regiment and Captain o. K. Glazebrook of the Twelfth artillery. Colonel Hunter saw continuous service at On; front from July 3 last. On October t his right foot and leg wero smashed by a bursting shell. He served in the Verdun sector and participated in the fight inff at Chateau Thierry and in the St. Mihiel salient. Major Jjeningr is recovering re-covering from three machine-gun bullet wounds in the right arm. "I don't care to talk about it; I nm only too glad to get back home," said Colo?iel I larvey , who was wounded in the right .arm In the Argonne ' hchting. The United States hospital ship Mercy, with 396 wounded troops aboard, arrived at Quarantine today shortly before a p. ni. The Mercy, sister ship of the Comfort, was delayed by storms and put in at Bermuda. She will dock tomorrow morning. During the voyage two of the wounded soldiers died. |