Show Ri FAN AN BOY 19 i iNS NS CROSSIE GROSS CROSS GROSSE IE E GUERRE G Cares Gar Car r Has 15 Shrapnel es in It Lad Writes Writes to Parents Conn Aug 5 S. S H Wheeler Jr Harvard le e J Greenwich Conn 1 W old who vho joined lomed the thea a in in Paris Pans last 1 pd who has received the there erre re writes write to his parents h as follows a working in action about table vable machine machin of modern I can tell you on we va had no attitude t toward ward it all aH section action came amE through it itI l I id d dour our work worl was most ef Ef ef- Le soldiers soldier of t our division w g TO wondering how we would Tt gh h when a real reil I crisis came ie ey practically worship us Si n lost 60 per pei cent of its men m In bout about About one-half one In re wounded and we carried I n red ed about a l bit hit in the one afternoon p few trink trinkets ts besides getil get- get rat il snapshots snapshot although I IY It Y t et t the on ones one 1 l wanted as Bombarding that portion of thing was wa thrown about lal 11 jes nes es as the people were get- get 1 Jew ew valuables and fleeing I Ine ne nursery where there ys s 's and tin soldiers scattered floor just as some child had ii big gapping hole in the theL L foor where a shell had come comeS come'S S 'S slat at Verdun a re e just lust got sot through ten days daysI r I in the middle of every- every p out to posts only a mataway mats mat- mat s away from the trenches in that you are reading about s t was interesting to be in ind d 3 of things but hut I never I was as going to c come me through it as as the first time an Amern Amer- Amer n n had been put in a a. place pf course we only worked nd ind the roads were under a as as s shell fire can cah n never ne imagine what it is lave ave been through it The literally pa paved pa with dead men in a tangle of of- broken Imagine the sensation of tillery Ullery wagon hit Just ahead rather of seeing the shell iming upon this seething en horses and wagons half If wounded also to have ha haves s ell l land in exactly time the same you sou ou were trying to help helpa a path and cutting head es such es-such such was one of mineD mine rn n D flat on my mv face in m the ed bruises all over o from and two big hig dents in my myno myno myno no no body wounds have read in the ap ip named d Barber was funded h hero here r He was in our as in the car just behind light him in after he was was was was completely smashed d all fill his blesses wounded uld could se see their feet stick stick- he wrecked hack every ever t b by dose lole Iose Calls was vas Nas the most miraculous of weird I r could not go out rip trip but what I would have haves s ill ll 11 and 1 was in the very II I 1 the big parties Nobody ro o 0 out with me after a while fifteen clean shrapnel holes Q Ces e es having the front right vu off One of my blesses shot nearly off in my car making a getaway from he te shellfire ived as a body an army a Croix Crois de Guerre Some received ed citations lived de rde Guerre of which I am amow ow tow we are in repose getup getup getup get- get up again Rumor has itI it going down to Somme but butin in n tell At any rate we thing worse than Verdun I vent it to Verdun I 1 thought 1 terrible terrible almost almost romantic wing Ing Ing but those ten days at atI I e changed m my opinion The Thee Theof e of it is beyond lf not knot the f sprit esprit of to hand Wt t st it is simply waiting to be except during a charges which all the sol sol- forward to The roads we wea weis a is s were simply paved with IS wrecked guns wagons we had to ride over The Theo Thes o es s we made some pretext but hut as nothing can be bethe bethe UIg the day and during the was Waa just black confusion and andery ery ery erv man for himself himself we we partially successful |