Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-06 | Page 6 | Soldier Boy Worried over Nell and the other Fellow

SOLDIER BW MED OH ELL ID IE OTHER FELLOW The following poem was written by Kaj E Wyatt of Tremonton, Utah, j whllp doing guard duty "over there" ! and watching for enomy planes. Young Wyatt has been in France since May, 1918. ! JUST THINKING Sitting out there in my pup tent, Looking above in the mist, A tin hat over my Ivory And a field glass In my fist. j Waiting, watching and wondering, Looking for a Hun up there. Say, aren't the things you think of Enough to give you a scare?. Things you haven't thought of For a couple of months or more; Things that will set you laughing; I Things that will make you sore. Things that you saw in the movies; Things that you saw in the street; Things you're really proud of, , Things that aren't so sweet. Friends that you left behind you. Stories you hear and forgot; Ball games and birthday parties, Hours of drill in v tho wcL Headlines, recruiting posters, Sunset, way out at sea, Evenings of paydays Golly, It's a queer thing, this memory. Faces of pale in God s land,, Voices of women folks; Verses you learned In school days, Pop up in the mist and smoke, As you sit there holding that field glass A-stnring and chilled to the bone, Wondering, wondering, wondering, Just thing there all alone. When will the war be over? When will the gang break through? What will the U. S. A. look like? What will there be to do? Where will the Boches be then? Who will have married Nell? When's that relief a-coming? Geo, but this think's hell.