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Show oo WOULD CARRY imTU THE WAR ZOIE A PICTURE j OF THE LORD ! I i Clydo Olsen, soldier boy with Co. G,! Fourth ammunition train, now sta-1 tioned at Camp Greene, near Char-1 lotte. N. C, has written a descriptive letter home. The latter was addressed to his mother, Mrs. A. Olsen, 590 First street, dated February 26, and. In part, is as follows: "Dearest Mother: I am over at the Y. M. C A. 'hut' writing these few lines. Tho Y. M. C. A. 'huts' are great things for us boys. We go there to read or play or sing and you will always al-ways find some of the boys off in a corner. "And, mother, they almost always have a picture. Sometimes they have two pictures of their sweetheart, their wife or their mother. Oh, I wish there was a picture of the Lord the soldier boys might carry. This Is a wonderful liberty we shall save, and democracy shall settle over many lands which have never known it befroe, and then, mother, we shall bless our dead ones and bind up the wounds of the living and honor them for the scars received in battle, and we shall care for the maimed and tho widows and the broken-hearted and the orphans who have paid the greater price. And our glory shall be that, when tho world was on fire, we had the great love which made us willing to lay down our lives that liberty might live among men. "When I think of the blessings America has conferred upon us who are native born and upon the stranger and his children within our gatos; when I think of what she has done in I defending human liberty and human V rights; and when I summon into view ! tho triumph of justice over despotism ; and freedom over tyranny and see hovr , ' God has guided us and blessed us, I ' want to kneel and kiss the soil beneath t. :, my feet I feel a wave of courage and ! of daring and of patriotism sweep over j '. mo and through me, which all other patriots feel, and I know that we shall 1 ; fight to tho end." ' |