Show FRENCH CEMETERY TELLS WAR TALE row pow after row of crosses in sleepy village symbolize spirit of france 11 12 AMERICAN DEAD THERE woman strewing flows flower upon the lees grave of yankee soldier Sold mourns the pauvres Pau farconi Gar boase coni e amer loan ican describes visit to cemetery new york yok A an american america till officer with briny in france has baa written it in a letter ill to his wife this moving description im of a visit isit to a french 1 e cemetery arz faaet come B with I 1 h me then to this little village milage a on t the he books banks of tile the a sleepy little village nestled called 1 in the broad aloy valley through which the river iss in ordin IY times a village of a few thousand inhabitants it Is now on almost empty because most of the peo pie n ho he could afford it have tied fled to safer places testing tasting for the second time since bince 1914 the bitterness of the war mr as it affects th the pm peaceful efad hajim civilian it la late aate afternoon sisson warm arm and sun enn ny Y tte A stroll strait down donn the main street together post past the old church once a head handa handsome ome B street structure but now how be badly adly v orather eather worn and almost la in in ruins F further arther on we pass the rules of Ps an old roman nail 11 which fifth 11 acial the if allm grauu if its of the be city in caesura caesar a time our footsteps into us to the right into a little lanb lame which leads out to lo t the h c country try up the gentle slope elope and t to os word ward the front after passing under the railroad bridge I 1 the Is B lane bi clam off HE abruptly to th the right it aoa ill dis appears through a tone intently gateway and we li cad in the new cemetery lid d the berda ber W tery called tied new because beci uise I 1 the dc demands ad of this terrible tour foul years at struggle agle hale hae been so that tin tax old cemetery Is o overpopulated oer raup populated it was torge large 1 I foi fin the normal population of the vill village age but t death has stalked otten often ahsu through the surce streeta the these a last fast tour ran lass bearg and I 1 ita vital victims in t leve have rum room A little gr gravel path laid out with straightness might straight nesi runa rum through the tha cemetery I 1 craft there them are a to few civilian graves graso huddled together at the near men end as if they had been crowded to make room lor for the other tenants ihen hae on the right low few after row of 0 grove graves of reh french soldiers marked by huge crosses and nl tor for the mot most crosses part covered with ill those hideous bend bead walk floral flora pieces A that the lite french use seemed on oil seeing t ie a one understands how ains jean I 1 aljean ij n recouped his fortunes you remember the story no DO doubt there were ere graves ot of elf cavalry ley old and artillery artil title leri and once in a while that of 1 nn aviator later her but Ih wherever rr one goes it is a always the infantis antly that pre ism dominates dominate here her 1 la the giac of a chinese worker there that of a no mo hammeran ham but all bear the well kila known phrase which means so much mort pour or 1 la petri patrie I 1 grove graves of assert americans As I 1 wandered along through row low after row reading the names bud and won men during who t their boll owners might have been I 1 a was startled to see ou on the oth orb er r file bide ot of the path justic a single row raw of fir graves aves at the he head da of r each a print prim little cr cross different somewhat a but f from those them across ass the way and ep I 1 in khaki the I 1 it knew who be these them newcomers were vere tiler there 0 were 22 of the them each hearing bearing a little round it it llon we tag I 1 instinctively reached up lip to feel if mine waa as all etall around my neck these them 22 among th tho first to give up their all for or the patrie patric a so fir acme the bea am were arranged in perfect alignment like a Pl platoon ila isto toon I 1 in drill I 1 couf I 1 help he P baying to As mi I 1 is self cl well 1 when h the e 11 master or of 1 ili the EU ka great unknown w commands d diax heroes attention to must dustir r I 1 you all all 11 will an r he here ahey hy were plot plain little era goraieb hid bid bout almost in their ii newness bots nots and oary nary a od ad to cover ill thim but had they her been to realism forgotten no indeed for on each ach toy lay a little bunch of soviet tits put the there by the kind hands hand of fit the women acra of t ur the village tillage these people are be III kind d so me thoughtful they of at inter will is never isor or forget LIE livan int aa I 1 abood mod there them thinning thinking about all thew these things a woman man caroe up viry TIU poor she he deemed ad to be yet klie Is rallied carrle fl a line basket filled with willi flowers wrest she else carefully distributed nil R along the to row As site she am 1 I up lip to 11 me 11 1 I headd cold tier bar say bay al 0 most to herself mahat and thinking h 1 nit i m probably aaa I 1 did not net understand d pon re game ile sont out icam enus dc B sl at IA I 1 lit coulden couldn I 1 t help it I 1 went malt up to her and mal 31 shook 1 her by the tha hand had and d her in 1 the names be of t thota a sleeping there and in n the name oil of etheln all he and ad sisters jet and it sweethearts back home it if I 1 knew where to a write T to I 1 would fit walta it to those 22 mothers and tell the them that their boya boy are 1 being well el I 1 iss looked ed after acor before I 1 could say 1 anything I hIce more to bf tho ron 0 an I 1 she nas gone she said she ile must a keep a one me bunch banch of flowers for her meet mari over yonder on the other bid side of the path I 1 chere hei vere A tile the wr tied ranks of the french on 11 our side or of the path only oily oae little rum row ond ad then off in a tar far corner away fr from else a little group of ger man arve graves hid bid misong a clump lux of fee trees aa is it if shrinking from tile the ad advance ing lard hordes of french mod and their new allies ilba feel from across tile the sea are it nil all ban billi zed so well the two tea roil the french and the american one great the other small but growing goig standing side lide byli by bide file against the roches boches abo inv dinv in the Is counce corner against the stone wall mall in the upper part of the cemetery was mass a group of workmen digging they led had been digging nil all day long and for many days for there them w ere many rows men of graves yet I 1 here hem must be room mom for those yet to come supplies far the front along the railroad fad that runs pat past the ra cemetery train after train passes pases loaded landed with 0 and ad i and men going up toward tho the front could those sleeping Ble lo 10 hrc but losen know ill could they but know tant france e AS aa ever sanco 2 those terrible do dais of 1914 la Is standing fast holding the enemy iby and anig the brunt of this tr he struggle tiler they ill roust in III L know it for r ill they Y all 11 iraj so BO peace fully of their part art la IS done they have given ceri thing they tied had to give and for them the it distant 1 tant rumble brumbl of the cannon has ase aa ings A for fit they sleep loop adcur at 1 in the b be if luf f that victory movie borne day n will ill be out ouia A sleep fiad on comrades for I 1 or polls fiege t to call you constrain comrades com your dix o work ork rk Is oer rr you an h have 1 well bit earned armed your or racist rt at I 1 he hose ie of t us who are left will sill carry cry on the work mark ion ou A so well begun bego go just juit a as I 1 left tile the got but turning homeward a strange pro ceolon but all posted ties down A the lane and I 1 stopped tr fr let it paa pa pasa a hugo huge painted I 1 war a gray bray followed by eight grizzled their file slung over their shoulders gollu fashion they were mers dirty Is he A and their idd faded and ad lot torn but oh h ao a typical of f Frim france sel torn term old nud cracked wracked by foul long years yeara of war mar on the truck A wag R painted the word munitions it wan A not for far it carried cannon fod fodder H er that had it ad served its ita purpose and had been used up in tile the struggle 1 I carne een A quickly c it ly to attention and so sa let sit it Is a c custom store of the country often fir done does without thought ought or feeling b but u t this time wy my so of was wag 1 la it I 1 wax proud to thus thua tender render homage to one p poor as or con common almon soldier as he be passed oo no hla big ailt lust long march open wide the get gates and give the clew newcomer comer room 1 give him a comfortable for table place to in that furthest row raw tor for he must most sale liae rest east and ad poor peace the Im leaves in th the trees rustled the torn tom bimbad Bad find and faded d fin flaga g s fluttered and the tin it tricolor cockade cockaded coc kades on each r ra cross A tinkled thus was tile the newcomer welcomed lot into his last earthly home |