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VICTORY 17 stretches of barbed Wire entanglements in No lVIan's Land Cand the German wire is so horriblej and sees how the earth seems to have been literally uptorn and moiled into an irritable quagmire, he clenchcs his fists involuntarily and mutters oaths of hatred for the bloody Huns. I have ridden for a day and night by automobile through village after village all of which were totally destroyed and beaten to the earth with not a human soul alive in them. Please give my best regards to all, and remember I constantly' think of Long Beach High. Yours very sincerely, Leonard G. Nattkemper. Miss Eleanor Thayer, a popular French and Latin teacher in L. B. H. S. for the past several years, in doing her bit has become a beloved companion and adopted sister to our wounded heroes in Letterman Hospital, San Francisco. I'm just as enthusiastic as ever over my job. I wouldn't swap it for any other in the world except one in France. I never had any brothers so it's lots of fun to be adopted by fifty at once. You ought to follow me round for a day to really understand just what my job is. I'm jolly with the cheerful ones, jolly up the blue ones, argue with the few Whose real or fancied wrongs are making Bolsheviki, give advice on all sorts of known and unknown matters, write letters, and translate French lettersf you may be sure I'm adding a great deal to my stock of sentimental wordsj. Most of the boys, however, seem to be rather down, if anything, on French girls: so I don't have much French work. I sew on service stripes and buttons, teach basket and tray making, bead work, Eng-
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5 .H ...QQ 18 CAERULEA '19 lish, French, arithmetic-in fact, anything which is called for. At the end of the day I go shopping. Buy me some post-cards -not scenery, but the kind a feller sends to a girl, you know. Since I don't know the girl and don't know the feller very well, these orders make me somewhat nervous but I do my best. My reward is the name many of them call me, Sunshine . It makes me happy every time I hear it, for I feel that at last I'm really needed some- where and missed when I'm not there. Sincerely, Eleanor Thayer Hugo Hihn has received- the distinguished decoration of the Croix cle Guerre, the greatest honor bestowed by the French govern- ment. The officers of highest rank salute the recipient of the Croix de Guerre. Mr. Hihn is so extremely modest that it was with much difficulty he was induced to give the story to Caerulea. We have since learned that he received two other decorations for distinguish-ed bravery. Hugo's story follows. I was a member of the lst Division 5th field artillery. As we were shock troops I managed to get into the thick of things. Ten' days after we had landed in France we were on our way to Chateau Thierry. We were also at Argonne Forest, at Metz, at St. Mihiel, and at Ponto Messon. Twenty-five of our boys were detailed for reconnoitering in map- making with a French troop. My buddy was a Los Angeles boy whom we named Sister because of his blonde hair and pink-and- white complexion. We traveled only at night. There were no lights in France at night for fear that Heinie would discover us from his air planes, The food on such trips consisted of hard-tack, canned
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