Show READ THIS iette ir LETTER TTE it A RICANS hero is a letter front from a legrange LeG illinois boy to his mother that for patriotism and reil americanism breathes the best sentiments that can call possibly be expressed pressel ex colliers weekly is publishing a serles series of worthwhile worth while letters tri ir ni the boys in fit the trenches and this one appears appear eJ I in that paper last week dear mother gash I 1 sure was glad to get the batch of mail thata just come it makes me feel so darned glad that im over here that I 1 trade my lay place for anything and let me tell you right here mother dear that you or anybody else at home know what real patriotism real love 0 of country is you any idea why illy you cant imagine what a great wonderful country the old united states 1 is 13 3 you cant realize what she stands tor for and means to the human race until you get a good perspective when I 1 am st standing anding retreat at night and hear tho tha star spangled banner played tile the first thing that comes come to my mind is the statue of liberty then our wonderful cities new york chica chicago 0 o san francisco then washington and president wilson and the wonderful cause that all our millions of americans Anig ricans arb willing I 1 ng to give up everything fo for r mother were lucky merely to have been born americans talk about waves up tip your spine its enough just t to 0 get over here in europe and look back over miles of water nt at the biggest typo type of nation based on liberty and justice that can be conceived why mother that thai statue of liberty and the american fla flag g stand for EVE everything that is worth while in life since ive got over hero I 1 feel moro more pity than anything else for the birds that are still at I 1 home lome sporting bilk shirts id rather be hanged tor for I 1 murder than bo be in their shoes I 1 figure that im the luckiest fellow in the ithe world to be able to stand up as a soldier here in france and bo be a part of the grda greatest test country engaged in inthe the most honorable thing a country ever undertook we ive have all waked up to what the words united states of america mean end of speech for tonight lots 0 of r love DICK we do not want to be severe but I 1 there are a lot of boys in this sec 1 tion to whom the last paragraph of the above letter should appeal juet what young red blooded boya boy H want around homo home who when n tho the country is calling so loudly is hard to understand |