| Show BACK bacr AND FRONT YARDS OF CAMP LEWIS LUZ it AS SEEN BY A UTAH SOLDIER having completed a specia special duta dut assigned tome in the inot ning the afternoon was ah riven given to ire to spend at ic leisge isue I 1 eat ent out to the parade grounds and viewed what I 1 call tho th back aid of camp leis lois the first seer that appealed to nie tile wa at the I 1 entrance into the greatest gren teet of uncle sims sams war it is a touch of 1 magnificent lifts from an tin othar oth r diy daiy the tile shot t stretch of rond from the ay to the staff stair he id quarter buildings I 1 it like the main street it ill mining camp of 10 it hrs hi the shien shick with false flouts tind gleaming lights movies and hubbub fo bourn boom tomorrow I 1 Ive era othin ahm about t is airn and temporal chett at night it beema with men nien home sonic I 1 olive drab while gome are still in civilian wilian cloth but they tie all US array army men inen soldiers rewa for then drilling and for the allin tin of w ir with the cart wrt diee wiy of an american nie nean and like sol att dairs rs they are reidy spend rs of value sucking oab to whilo aw aej the tile hours thair thur spire lionni liours it night so the th front bard of camp lewis i ia a to one who fluis the thrill that boines with the rt reilie ellz atlon of a might nation bringing its arnia anti git binl its loins au foi fol war ar it is in the back card the thull is felt it is here th that thit it sammi does his hotl he plays jonii in the fiant yards yard borts thousand thou band men drilling on one held field as far as the e ee e cp c ri rl ich tell they are matching mai clung in double flip in columns ot fours in comp iny fiant and in skir nish lines chck 11 ick and anti forth the smooth brown turf of the great parade they wyane u commands a like bullets highel highet and sharper than the dull pound und thud of heavy heany t anth shoes on the springy eartle then the musty tiste biste of the gaudy foolish display at the gates is taken away forever here are thrills gradually the long centipede like lines of rhythmic khaki collapses then ehrp sh rp orders bring the scattered scitt ered d bits into one whole the sun is shining hining ill 11 is quiet now the have ceased and for almost three miles tie double line lin runs straight and even sudden some where f fir ir away a bugle lifts IN voice Lin shun shouts an officer the ct crisp asp command goes echoing thi through ough the ranks and as u if actuated by a single botev nin ni n become rigid as wooden higher and higher the bugle sc reinis in liquid notes that kiemble ble in exalting alting ev ch in one wie long itson int blast it dies die awny and leaves pregnant silence stlene L behind still bt ill the khaki line is au boatly sweetly liku bliku i benediction comes the tile opening strains straws of the band ephey are playing the star spangled bp angled bannet every bi fieast east evet eveia y heat t goes out to so something meting that must be rial the marching marchin musicians draw closer and the wonderful grows bouder until the efrain i bigots upon the car ar almost shouting 0 O er the land of tie te art frt prin 4 and the home of the brave tim this 1 is the end of the sol diers wo 1 day here la is the thrill of americans not in the front ya yani d where sammiel phy but in the back yd where he works is to be round tile blood P quickening nies massago sage A america lit e r i ca first arm anti Arne alenci rici prepares for war HAZEN VANCE |
