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Show ' Flowers for the Heroes, in the. Name of France HT VICUY. France, Is a cemetery ceme-tery where the graves of the war desd lie thick. Were there American graves among them? A Missouri tourist and his ! wife wondered. . Their graves should 1 be flower-strewn Memorial day. That was In 1022. : The concierge was asked to And the ! American graves and order flowers 1 enough for all. After several hours be returned -to say there were no American graves and that the order for the (towers had been canceled. . "No. no," said the wife of the American, Amer-ican, "we - shall put them on the Trench graves." - , So to the cemetery the tourist pair went, and there Joined eager attendants attend-ants In placing flower upon many French graves. At some headstones small American flags were placed, to the delight of the attendants. There were smiles, sympathy, a feeling of comradeship. The ' tourists ' returned to the hotel. At the door the doorman bowed, murmured a thanks. The manager had a kind word. The elevator man, when they entered the lift, saluted In . the manner of a French gendarme. That night at dinner the waiter had a personal word when the check was paid, fhe chambermaid even spoke a humble thanks to the tourist's wife. All in the name of France It was In the name of France. "Vive 1'AmerlqueP f About the graveyards of . France, this Memorial day, the French , are placing thousands of wreaths on fhe graves of American soldiers. Kansas City Star. ' . ' ; -f |