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Show STANLEY PI1GT0N IS BACK FROM THE WM Captain Stanley A PurrinjJon at-rived at-rived home- on Wednesday last from overseas. He left Ogden August 9, 191S, for Camp Fremon' and wns as isrii il io the Sth reg,meni of Infantry, "th division, then bem? formed. He .eft Camp Fremont id France in Oeto-ber Oeto-ber and :irrird in Brest November 9. two days before ihe a. mist ce was signed. Shortly after his arrival at Brest he- was ealled to work in ihe main billetiriK offiro and assisted in the re-embarking of h - various repi in en t .iml di v iions I lint i ft that ncrt . In the early part of July re left Brest for Bendori on the Rhine and was as-: as-: i;nn! to the 16th ibTantrv h udriuar- i i rs company of the famcus firsl di vision, returning home with them, nnd was mustered out of Service S.'turday. September 27 While On his way home be rote tb following lines: "FINIS." Mv life in the ann 1 over I've turned in my park and my jsnin I've had my last meal from a mess kit My work as a soldier Is done. M di -charge is safe in my DOCket Tonight 1 am taking the train And it's only a matter of hour . Till I'll be in ray home 'own apain. I'm saying sood-by to my buddies That's the part which conies hardest of all, (We've lived just like brothers together Since we first answered Libert a call. Now our days in the srricc are over, And soon with out loved ones we'll be. But we'll be just as true to the Red, white and blue. As we were when we wore the O. D. No more will the bugle arouse me I can sit back and laush at it now, Ne'er again will it call me to quarters Or make me line up for my chow. I'm finished with trench shoed and legglns. With blouses and O. D. shirts, too. I can say without doubt, I'll soon be stepping out In a nice civie suit gray or blue. My home town Is not a big city, No White Way or skscrtp rs high. But I long for a sicht of the mountains And the trees and tin bonnv blue sky. Speed up engineer and let - gel there And nt-vrt again will I roam, From that little old shack, so I say "Take me back, To the voiles of Utah --MY HOME." no |