US Army Infantry School - Doughboy Yearbook (Fort Benning, GA)

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I ,. , . 'vi f- 'fb -,i X7 1 y , eb- .T ,. it ,N -4 ,AL . - --- -'-- r Dere Ed: Well Ed, this is some course. I gotta rite a monogram, now Ed, on the Eyetalian Fronts in 1915. Well Ed, I don't kno anything about the Eyetalians fronts in 1915 or any other year. What should I care about the Eyetalians fronts, I have enuf truble keeping the soup offen my own, without worryin none about the fronts of them wops. Well Ed, there is lots of books in the library which tells about wop fronts and backs so I gess I'll copy some good stuff an shoot it in. You kno me Ed-clever. Well Ed, the Maje who gave us the dope on this monogram said we gotta be Simpathetic and full of Enthosiam for our subject. Well Ed, I'm pretty Simpathetic over some of them fronts, I gess they is wurse than yours, I'm full of Enthosiam to Ed, it costs about six dollars a Gal. and I keep some in the house all the time. I gess even a stingy guy like you Ed could get Enthoosiastic down here where prices is rite. I'm goin to be some Enthoosiastic about them fronts Ed. You kno me-Enthoosiastick 90'i, that's all. Well Ed, a lotta guys has already given their monograrns. Some guys think its a swell chance to pull sum bum whit Ed, but not me, serious but enthoosiastick, that's me eh? Some of these bum jokers has got their marks Ed, along with a lotta sirnpathy from their teacher. The teacher is very Enthoosiastick when he marks the paper an simpathetic when .he tells you how bum you are. Well chere up Ed, he won't have to tell-you, he can see it if his eyes ain't bum. Well Ed, what with monograms an all I'm pretty busy. I gotta do some Work for the guy who helps the Commandment Ed. The fellas call him the Vyking which don't sound sensible to me, Ed. Anyhow he's pretty important around here an he wants me to do some extra work for him Wed. afternoon next. I hate to give up my afternoon off Ed, but I gess I'll have to akomodate him-you kno rne Ed, obligin eh? I gess he'd 'never knon I was here if he hadn't of spied me strollin into class only one half hour late. He seen what a good man I was and tole me I was to make a study of the animule transportation of this Post. Well Ed, thatls a stiff one I gess. I ain't seen any animules being transported yet unless you count in some of them wearing Sam Brouns. fpretty good, ehj Well I gotta lot to do so I'll say so long now. ' Yours Enthoosiastickaly, Bill. Q L Y 1 'v I J 2 J J 1:1 5 - if l i 'i 'g f ,fu 5 ' Q. 4 ' .E '59 ,171 l-is-Q ' 4 l C lvl!

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.IQ ,. js of fs , f I A -X J Ang X1 IQZ4 DOUGHBQY S Concentrate my wandering faculties on trench and field and moot, So I wrote and what was written was uncommonly poor Was unusually rotton and most uncommonly poor Worse had ne'er been writ before. But at last the trial was ended, my sentence was suspended, I emerged from out the darkness of that nasty stable door Got acquainted with the neighbors, saw the sky, the trees, the jay birds Keep me here forever is all that I implore, Keep me here I gibbered faintly I will monograph no more And the darkness of the stable echoed- Monograph no more. Now I wander in the gloaming, from within there comes a moaning, From my lips there comes a whisper that I never heard before, On my hand I bear a token, an index finger broken Busted smack upon the keyboard just below the figure four And the whisper raised a blister as thru my lips it tore And I mutter morn and evening I will monograph no moref' So the cursed thing was ended and my wobbly way I wended To the Section and Department where they grade and mark and score, There I turned in my effusion, fled from laughter and derision, And I waited in fear and trembling just behind an open door, There I waited and debated till they followed up my spoor And they gave me back my paper It was marked INFERIOR. 59 cuff w -. , , fywiv-M . .. 4 Hg A In an . , 1- V. ,-11 ,., ,az X f 7, l,j'llfU,A Trp - f X .Q X441 - W 4X4:0 N I -rlfflllll H 'Nff nl ' fl- Wai: f , v 'W' f -. ,, f. e ff N',,! ying . ll: - r , , . - ,L s- yy - fri, ,V . .-r nf, , I 7 4 ? r . X - Y K gf.. i-.V T 'fi 1, -1- f L 'Y' 'fa.ul'Brown, L -,-lggflj J .- i A -, -1 ,A H - ,.,,, A. uv ,,,,-15, - --, tl r Y , 1 1 J 1 j -2 if 5' ' i V fs S- fi f' 5 T ' - .ll .xt ,rw ,pin ll: K I WW

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3:2 A gi , - ld shine? I 'Q M f Az : ' I 924 DOUGHBDY ' Dere Ed: Well Ed I suppose I might as well start the Noo Year off rite so I'm going to rite to you Ed, not that I can help you any Ed-what you need is this coarse here Ed. You'd stop beefin about how good you were in La Bell France Ed if you had to take this coarse. Well, jan. lst came around brite and early here Ed with the same old Army stuff. Onct a year the General Stab has tu prove that animuls and men sleep best in the morning so on Noo Years they have the band come out and play all the peaces they don't kno real well at about 4:30 A. M. I don't kno about the men Ed but these tooters woke up all the anirnules which is mostly dogs in Block 23. Well the band played Happy Noo Year for a one half hour Ed, and then our noblest friend the Kaynine talked it over so I got up an made my first Noo Year Resolution, Ed, which was to kill one large bandsman every Noo Year. Yu'd better keep that ukalaylay out of site when I'm around Ed. Yu're worse'n a Bandsrnan Ed when you get to ticklin that thing. Well, so long Ed for this time. Yures Until the B Board Meets. Bill. .I x ,ff 5 f ' . 'X '-f4Z2. fl + V. ll 151.4271 4 .. fin- ' I f 1 deli N 4.5, I I if f' g tis. '9- V-l3- C, '-f-'Q-'1'f 526' L 1- :F .' .. J? We 2 gi , 5 pAF!,T: I 40'