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When he received Certificate of Honor for promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds.
Thrice decorated for distinguished conduct and valor in Europe.

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Excerpt from Soldiers of the Legion Trench Etched

"Good luck, my soldier! You Americans are an extraordinary people. You are complex. We have thought we understood you - but, we do not. We never know what you will do next."

I asked my French landlady, who thus responded to the news that I had joined the Foreign Legion, for an explanation. She said:

"In the early days of the war, when the Germans advanced upon Paris at the rate of thirty kilometers a day, driving our French people before them, pillaging the country, dealing death and destruction, when our hearts were torn with grief, Americans who were in Paris ran about like chickens with their heads cut off. They could not get their checks cashed; they had lost their trunks; they thought only of their own temporary discomfort, and had no sympathy for our misfortunes."

"But," she continued, "the same ship that took these people away brought us other Americans.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.