Military Songs of War

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Diary of Pvt. Henry Grossman

Monday February 27th 2006, 10:43 pm
Filed under: WW1 Soldier Diaries

The Argonne Forest, that terrible tangle of underbrush, so dense that it was all one could do to cut one’s way through, of ravines and hills, of the lurking machine-guns that a man could not see until he was ten feet from them, of Germans clad in body armor, hiding there with their helmets camouflaged with twigs and painted green and brown.

— Pvt. Henry Grossman

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Diary of Pvt. Michael O’Connor

Monday February 27th 2006, 6:43 pm
Filed under: WW1 Soldier Diaries

Of all the actors in the great tragedy of the war, none stand out more heroically than the chaplains, none fill a greater place in what has come to be called the theater of the war. No wonder so many of them have received decorations, and no wonder the men highly value the presence and encouragement of the minister of religion.

— Pvt. Michael O’Connor

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Diary of Pvt. Charles Altman - Part 3

Monday February 27th 2006, 6:49 am
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General Petain, Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies operating on the French front, on July 3, 1918, issued the following general order: “To-morrow, the Independence Day celebration of the United States, the first American troops which have debarked in France will defile in Paris. Later they will join us in the front. Let us salute these new companions in arms who without thought of gain or of conquest, but with the simple desire of defending the cause of right and liberty, have come to take their places in the ranks beside us. Others are preparing to follow them. They will soon be on our soil. The United States means to put at our disposition, without reckoning, their soldiers, their factories, their vessels, and their entire country. They want to pay a hundredfold the debt of gratitude they owe to Lafayette and his companions. From all the points of the front a single shout on this July 4th will be heard, ‘Honor to the great sister. Long live the United States!’”

— Pvt. Charles Altman

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