Roosevelt Standard | 1918-10-30 | Page 1 | Home is Where the Boy is in This War

KOME KO ME is WHERE THE BOY boa L is ix IN THIS is WAR I 1 visited a home where a service flag hangar hanga and while we ate we ic I 1 talked of the lioy boy who Is over there 1 I wonder if lie he is cold tonight the mother said 1 I wonder if IE lie he 3 has a place to warm himself arid and dry ills his clothes arid and something good to eat what I 1 give to be with win him she said and we were vere silent knowing her heart gut but I 1 thought of 0 the soldiers ol of friendliness who that very night would crawl out across no mans mana land to take chocolate and lot hot coffee to that boy of 0 the huts with their warm fires fire burning ot of the great lecturers and preachers and actors and motion pictures I 1 that are over there and I 1 thought to myself f there is a difference between this and every other war for when the boys have marched away before the influence of their homes has stopped slopped at the front iata and could go no farther but la in tills war it follows the ilia flag across the ocean over the shell torn battle land straight up to the front line trenches home is where the boy Is in tills this war prom from every town an and village ithe the lines of helpfulness rut run out j and no ilo boy leaves his hoi home behind 11 i to ep cp 1 hi tep iten it travels biti willi ii i fl fi i d bv ov the folks behind i 1 oln am a tol toi tin OIL ot of their love