Shields High School - Patriot Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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FRANK WELLER S HE SUN has slipped below the horizon. The faint blue line away to the west, suggesting the contact of earth and sky, was slightly edged with crimson. Two or three truant stars were already twinkling in the dark blue canopy above. At another time the serenity of it all might have stirred the soul of a poet to an expression of immortal feeling. But to us, a regiment of French in- fantrymen, it brought only a deep thankfulness that another day of slaughter was at an end. Rifles and machine guns that had cracked incessantly since the first dim hint of dawn were now silent and the general con- fusion of battle, so horrible in its intensity, had given place to a strange calm as the shadows of approaching night fell gently upon the earth. The last pale streaks of twilight faded out of the western sky and the moon, like an impetuous enchantress, seeing the last fluttering edge of her rival ' s golden robe broke from behind a cloud and enveloped the universe in the radiance of her beauty. As the stars grew thicker and brighter, a gentle breeze came whispering across the fields, bringing in its train through moonlight and starlight the holy hour of evening. Men who but a few hours ago were trying to kill other men now banished from their minds all thoughts of strife. The field out in front of our trench was strewed with silent grey-coated figures. They were shock troops who had been hurled against our first line fortifications. They made a gallant sight, those young fellows, grimly advancing while our machine gunners cut great swaths in their ranks. We had lost many a brave French lad in breaking that charge, and now it seemed that a mutual feeling of human sympathy pervaded the atmosphere and established an unspoken truce between us and the Germans. The world must be made safe for democracy. — The President. Page Twenty- three]