Show j n ice Day Address hed b by bl Request of Dayton Myton Post ost American l Legion 1 i boys in their trek back to o oe e in 1927 1921 found it different than thai 1 os told by Rice in Hack Dark In France ft it poem pen BACK IN IX FRA FRANCE CE 1917 1917 1927 1927 I By Br Grantland d Rice It is b different v no where now where the guns gulls are arc still I It Ii Is different now nut by hi valley and hill bill ere no one slogs through the rain and mud mad I To Mid hold some trench that is red mil blood Gj td with the blood 01 of a n million mason mei me n WhO sleep and sleep and wait for thou their r uns mM'S tes again ngam It II lib L different now now now-by by the Meuse Ieuse an and d Aisne I where Where the fields are mc ripe with td te tte e harvest grain Fir a the harvest banest then was shattered E W d 7 only the rain washed rain washed crosses f stood To l Veep leep their guard for the ghosts of I urea icen r ho Who sleep sleep and and wait for their I mates mates' matesa a again ain S o i call Il comes conies out ont for the sudden thrust frust Of rifles stained with n a a year ten l' l I rut Anti And no patrol now holds its beat Through Mans No-Man's o- o Land where the gray Jy ghosts meet lei bj out of r the night no sudden flare lends ends up Its flame on the midnight air 1 as lS they turn to the eastward track nek- ck Old songs old pals and old days clays come me backIs back Is they fight old oM wars in the ancient stress t lISt lIS i hwn m the Argonne drifts drifts- to to the to S S. 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S i Ij Ii they dream old dreams in the huts founts of men Who Vho sleep sleep and and wait for their mates mates' again N And nd to so to us today tocla it is different t Ithe the day in November ember 1918 it bez be- be ithe z the eleventh hour of the eleventh ele U of the eleventh nth month on Broad- Broad r f on n the highways and in every 2 i 1 io In n America on the tIfe farm in the stories lories ries men and md women drop what what- r u tool or trade they have in hand America America faces East Fast for all ov- ov merica for the space of O h min- min Americas Americans J pause in their every t k to pa Pay reverent re tribute to our gored ored r dead faces east and the theof ht of most of us as we stand amid our familiar surIn sur- sur Aa ings In fanc fancy speed across th the theA to Some some hill bill side or to Aroa Arn Aron Ar- Ar on oa A n where v the long rows of white 5 sat snarl mark the last rel resting ting place of p who g helped to Aty bring about the 11 h 7 event ent which we celebrate toh toJ to- to J ron may be at it some other point in rt re f where began the thc soul trying or ot mah Inah many months perhaps bethe be be- D time the ic Argonne Forest loret and the e nil all of which lasted until the sent ent 1 Q Germany cried hough nough no ugh 9 It Nay ruay be Le- Le in 1 Flanders field in inOr Or r tu at Brookwood England and r rd ih v 1 wo the e gleaming earning m markers the endless sleep of Americas' Americas Idler T BOt Boys J BIls II y r of lars days in 1918 1 to recall s moment twelve years When that at hoped for fla message flashed hed rid to a waiting world a n ho e t er every elv breath was a erto to should GOd i that the the terrible i tease u will IH se here hete remember what took e on Ire rC the evening e of that day dar years ears f er r bonfire nn ago ngo to tonight when the wn opa Pus ih when Was lighted on the thc old ld I d lathered gathered er c every man maD w woman man and rUlo h d with Mth riotous jO Joy iu in cel- cel eel eel- t that b at t it w was s over over o over o there Day D y now is a day clay da of re- re rane not not ot of f kh the riotous KH to to- to tOOk scenes j Joy which Place ce and the mad macl flenZ frenzy a Possessed the nation on r fen all au t of f y 11 1918 H It I It Iau w true the le w worlds rids millions realized 0 Ule trin t triumphal over o Ver over oter there thele and not 1 1319 13 u When hen al Procession in 1918 1318 m home OUt our ur khaki khaki h boys hoys ys r re- re It i U b tho i rail r a hose ge Who v day of oC remembrance le never nefer did not r return turn and who to fc u of IK hear lear lear- In the thc flesh the thc the If r millions or to know lenow if f i lo of nr of r life had hud in n I WAR WAn DEAD la Teen heen I in n ti the n few more solemn y than history of this great greatHen m at when Hen an on n Ari Armistice Da Day in A r iL Americas America's Unknown Soll Sola Sol- Sol aas a I n l brought In l hack back and burled buried In ln tt of of 1 In i his native Americans land may may The TheIn I. 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