European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Troop ship there is not of dark Waters nor of icicles Flung across the each Star a predestination for each pack Bent it is a numbness born of the growing quiet and sad in spite of a band at the Dock wisely playing deep in the heart of Texas and not the false nostalgia of Auld Lang in spite of Spry red Cross workers who try to warm you with a smile and a hot cup of you want to but you Are a Soldier and automatically March into the ships pregnant with the Shoreline even As the body weariness when your pack slumps for weariness fades into and they is a disease of the become it is a merciful disease which pierces the fetid warmth of close packed it cuts a Broad Highway to the land of the land of Lilac of soft Bluegrass and now the night is lulled to sleep by each Mournful each swishing wave an Echo of the each wave a cry of sadness Between two China Charles l Leong a wac comes Back when she completes a soldiers life and comes Back Home to be his will All her army training perfect her in those gentle arts so Well designed to soothe mens their self esteem sustaining will she arise when he comes Down with up with stand till he says at ease will she awake before the will every household task be done the Way that he decrees will he have dinner placed on in neat All his Days and will she serve him Well will she no wish of his but be her prompt reply who can Tell Margaret Jane Taggs he facts re Alexis Smith she was born june in British Colum she is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 126 her bust is 35 her hair is her eyes aside from her Abil Ity As an Alexis is an expert both tap and her new picture for War Ner is the Horn blows at tomorrow when the brass begins to tarnish and the Gold begins to when the gabardine Are wrinkled and theres dust upon the when the rosters have been posted and youve had your final will you speak to me tomorrow As you spoke to me today when we meet upon the Corner in our customary will your attitude be lofty will you still look Down your nose will you curse me As you did when in my weary Steps i faltered or will you speak More kindly be the Circum stances altered when youve made your final error and weve taken All the when weve reached civilian will your manner be the same just what Wil be your thoughts when we have gone our different Way will you think of me tomorrow As you think of me today l will you still be just As Quick when asked to demonstrate your or will i do your problems when we both get Back to College if i meet you on a dance floor or when strolling on the could affairs be vice versa will i be the one to scorn perhaps Well meet tomorrow with a slightly changed relation in sure that it will be a most amusing in quite convinced that it will be a most unpleasant Day if i think of you tomorrow As i think of you Newfoundland great South Bay the red Brown Marsh grass glints beneath the a signal and a warning that the autumn has a straggling line of thistles is marching Down the Field wearing stubborn courage As a Buckler and a a White Gull is pencilled against the Turquoise and on the surface of the Bay a Saffron Sunset the surging water mocks the stillness of the and taunting Waves Roll in to break in laughter on the a Cloud of wings goes swiftly lonely Crane in in the winds voice is a warning of the coming of the new Guinea sgt Kathleen Nealis Sanctuary my mind is a quiet place in the a Clearing where Many men come and and you remain music i hear with you is More than poems we read Are More than i dare not even breathe the often we and you Are the Cool hand on the brow that untangle the nervous tendrils of what part of my soul i am free to give has been in your what Hope there is in my my we my mind is a quiet place in the i meet you Marianas t4 Stan Funk fellow countrymen i am whatever you Are your Friend and your drinking if you Are italian and then i am proud to be and when you ask me i will Tell you a scandinavian might in my Brown hands and sailing a fellow i am because i have a dark and Swarthy a greek will you Are greek a brother has eagerly recognized and i am glad to be a some May guess me shall i deny my hebrew de scent i am All of these to my valiant a Savage wrack brain of my company insinuates against the negroes equal manhood i quietly explain his or spit in his negroes Are not ashamed naming me one of their i am i am whatever you you no less than Parris Lewis usic ghost hotel like a monstrous she a lifeless thing against the splendid she no longer shattered and sightless Are her thousand her upper where the shells Tore smell yet of like the bloody pyres they their ruins Wear a ghastly Hue made by the fading Light As the Sun around her lacerated casements moan the Winter winds and sweep her drapes chilling her once snug now forbidding where memories charming and Gay she was and when All men break through chaotic Shell live Herbert Risley change of address Scriber and have changed your use this Coupon together with the mailing address on your latest yank to notify us of the mail it to the army 205 East 42d new York and yank will follow you to any part of the full name and rank old military address order new military address allow 21 Davs for change of Andrett to become effective