Show SERGEANT S E R G vu j ANT LOSES as HIS S LAST FIGHT F I 1 G 1 1 L r T soldier wins admiration of comrades through cheerfulness in Ho hospital sital HE WAS GAME TO THE END four operations were too much for Streng strength ih of noncom non com who was wa wounded in action at Chateau Thierry an american hospital in Fri prance ince no not going to bring the Fer sergeant genut bade to abe ward boys these were exactly the words worda tile the urso used use hut but tile the tono tone of her voice and tho the look ook in her eyes said wore 0 the little group in tile ward which had been playing curds cards on ono one of tile beds bed to forget tha ten tension I 1 they fp felt it while the sergeants operation operate oil wils ani taking inking place stopped suddenly till nil at tc tuition atlon nil all hungering for good news 4 you dont bienn lie sergeants gi pone gittle do you exclaimed one yes boys tile hie sergeants gone four op rations were just too much tor for his strength lie he never regained conscious nes he was a game goy boy gee the sergeants gone huskily sold said a clial with ono one log gone lie ho suro sure was a game boy ile ho eps the best fellow I 1 ever knew salt said another and the cheer faulest too ivo ive seen been them dressing ills leg time and again find gosh I 1 but it hurt hut but did tile the sergeant over ever ny anything not tile the serge arill lio bo never batted tin n tye eye just to think mused a third it halt half tin nn hour ngo ago when we saw go out I 1 shouted good luck sargo sarge when the stretcher was cl married mir ried through gil the lour door and ito ho nal paid ild thanks hanks 17 ill b ck 11 it fey minutes with willi you tile Bergon nt wig friank frank carbaugh of leastle id n A n ul member eiber of 01 I 1 ho a 1 machilig gun sanitary detachment no mother ever reared a braver con tho the sor sargeant geant dybo aho was it cd CA teacher before the lio war ana wounded lian lila ilia ol ifill wils into ficai notion i lipar chateau Th thierry lerry nolle kone of lila his buckles knew just JIM liow low ae ns as ono of of explained tilt hf sergeant ani nt tile tho kind of A fellow alle of himself you yet cin 11 ll let ito to ans wounded doing foil boino 1 0 tiling filing for somebody nome body amicy ila did know that lint tile joy iny out but in tile lio open a long time aft hatt r lo he 10 ans its medical elaw that ilia left IV ipg wa anns badly sm smashed ashod find they tit nt the arst lio lie reached hut but gangrene lind got bot in noil mid four lind followed they have lind had lots of bravo an tints that lint doctors find nurses anti tits adin tred alike in alint hospital but never ono one just like tile tho ser bennt the little group sitting on oft tho the cots cols with the nurse lind been talking of tho me sergeant for n long ions time alit n ono fine of the hoya boys faid you yet ought to arite rite to his mother adlas cutter tile the i barge thou thought glit tile tho world of hla his mother tm im going to replied tile the nurse 11 you hoys boys write out what you lienk think ot ol tho the sergeant and ill send tint that too loo what the boys boy wrote the hoys boys did and hero here ore fire a fow few lines front from them private elmer eliner wrote 1 1 I 1 was wan bilth him as soon HS as lie ho edme front from the operation ind find I 1 cried when he went ile he was a great erent boy it 11 clean fellow through and through I 1 wish my ay foot was so I 1 could c 0 uld walk with him to the tha rei wagoner john trask broto our vergenne nt Is gone why I 1 loved vint fellow like my own brothers ivo ive peen ocen other fellows go but I 1 never felt like tills I 1 sergeant vincent sauer wrote 1 I never felt worse since I 1 came in the tha light iio was ana game to the he last nl at ways cheerful and when I 1 patted jim luck to yo you u 1 lie a answered Irli anks ill ile be 0 ac soon wo ive always and lun fun ar around nd tits his bed lie ho was so chaer vil 1 iio 0 was ono of alio ineat fellows I 1 ti ever cr knew arthur stain who knew tile the sergeant better than the ho rest tho boys boya pay because lie ho find and the lio sargo liked to dabble in poetry wrote A poem to send bend the sergeants tits mother they hurled burled tho the sergeant in tho the lit ile id american graveyards graveyard in n pretty cormine with on an Amer american ienn flak flait iner the coffin as 18 soldiers llred three pilots liota over tile the grave nry tho the huger gave genvo tops taps then spine of 0 tho tit boys chae heir rending attending the funeral gathered faltered palt ered lowera flowers in the valley and the nutsey placed them ott op tho the grave 8 anil 44 blue around them mcm 4 n fa e 4 e ut tr 1 |