Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Saturday july 17, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Page i Pup tent poets vib Klihr the sad sack the sad sack is a funny Little runt with a Iona protruding nose his ears stand out like the wings of a pianos while his stomach sags in repose. His uniform fits like a Burlap sack in stature he a not very tall he is always made the butt of a joke and his ego suffers a fall. He belongs to the outfit Quot stars and stripes Quot and he a Good for a laugh every week. We take off our hats to the old sad sack that comical Little jeep. Boort when your of Days Are past. And peace comes to a War torn land we Hope you regain your dignity As you make Stout civilian stand. At the end we know our right will win to Homeland Well go and yet though the horrors of War May Long be past the sad sack Well never forget., a pvt John e. Hagerty a soldiers Toast come drink with me in the Vineyard of today a Toast to pleasures we have hoped to know. Cast aside the cloak of yesterday and feel the Rush of time upon us blow. Come drink with me the precious Vintage flows and makes a kind of music in its Way. A song whose words upon the Breeze Are Low a sad song yet a Gay one so they say. Why on the Brink of time and space and love our eyes turn Back to Loc on peace and weep Why must the magic of the sky above then hypnotize our burning Eye in sleep come drink with me in the Vineyard of today a Toast to what god wills and what we May. It sgt. John h. Rutter to Abow you that s the Way it gotta be. Dont aet up an awful Bote and get hot beneath your Collar for although this War is hell it s what to for. A cause if we Stop the conflict now i done to think Awn win somehow it might be a by amp of Victory like before. Let not fall for pretty m and germans Spaghetti sermons we Are fighting jape not to mention that Bender. Ifs no time for peaceful dreaming. They Are maniacal demons. The time is far from Ripe a peace to tender. So let us really this time see. That no More wars like this can be we must wipe from off this Earth this Rule by might hostilities must never cease till we re sure of lasting peace and this Rule of might gives Way to Rule by right. John Schindle prayer before coing on pass lord Send me a woman with hair tired and Sweet sirocco Sweet to to the end there is nothing so delicious As to realize your wishes. When those wishes arc the essence of your life. And of there a one thing i abhor. Its that there will be no War no mor lighting no move Wood and no More strife. Yes More War is what my wish la but be gods cd Little fishes. There is nothing wrong wry that that i can see. Though with words in a not so Clever i will honestly Endeavor like the Sun. With eyes wine dark when the laughter a done her lips must be red As the reddest Rose and her voice Uke the Breeze where the Lilac grows her Grace the Grace of the Sloe eyed Fawn her Charm a dream of the Dew and the Dawn. Then tint her Cheeks with the. Sunsets flame and a note of music Shah be her name. Who lightly loves As the spent leaves fall and takes not the heart now Tho soul in Thrall. Of answer my prayer with gracious accords but keep your Angels in heaven. Lord �?0-27 Utt the dental corps we men of the dental corps sad and sorry our plight still As in the Days before patients come in deadly fright tis True we Drill then Drill some More. Sometimes we yank with All our might perhaps thais Why men hate uart far no guns have we to join the fight we merely toll and labor a doing what we re taught is right naturally we do deplore no gratitude for us in sight they say of us in each refrain to Drill and Hurt for that we fight to Weir grief and fear we do disdain to torture them is our Delight our thoughts go Back to peaceful Day. When of their very own fret win. Patients cams and sought our ways this tooth to pull that one to Oil but now our lots in awful shape though monthly we receive our francs the hate Jot men we cant escape and no mole hear a Wen meant j. Hur win surrender the mockery of eventide that casts that last Golden beam of Sunset across the Cineros sky would but tease the Day with heros finality and yet How weary would the world grow with continuous Light so Earth reluctantly draws the min Ria and lays a weary head upon the breast of night. Winifred b. Cochrane tired in Africa african air night the wicked fondling velvet of this is Africa. And Africa is air. And Waits for us like a perpetual ambush. Africa air with half closed lids a continent is watching whose spies axe scorpions dust and deepest roots sirocco atari ripest of continents most echoing with unending thud of unseen heavy fruits. Tired est greenest from Earth deepest roots into our shadows Africa ii seeping a a a a a aaa a a a a a aaa aaa a a a a a a a a mfg flashes from the Field r a miniature Quot civil Waif has Besa brewing at a advanced airbase in North Africa Ever since lbs Arew of flew their Craft Over Here from the mates. Southern Crew chief to set Kenneth p. Dyke or of Oreville Treuil named the bomber the a Hying him. The country. Shortly after the christening. Ibb i placed a Crew at northerners on the plane my a a Van matter of Seneca Falls. N. A the put Van Marta. The ships name jinxed it. They had continuous diary Long time to ferry it across a forced Hydraulic lines and numerous other ailments. So. Theares Ofree Quot enters minted out the Quot Rebh Quot and renamed the ship the Quot faring by some strange coincidence 2 land despite a petition signed by the southerners the name remains the a a Tablet Alk of i Railroad Man of Ai battalion in Tunisia mostly concerns the str be hats of their French counterparts ferny Aam at i a i Date we to the states. So thong to cumin. Over their Bacon and eggs in the mess Hall a former Railroad a Tira. Our a sgt Atli i Coco til All y so tag around to the French trainmen1 habits Jorv a Day ahead. And stopping the train for a a go Quot a a Hitchiner Dost in Cader to Cive the train Crew time to shake hands and pan the time at Day with try i061, trouble with the train service mid a at the railroaders Quot to that there s just a Little too much Hamwi Ablong. A a a flying office Keo Emmerson of Australia who bold the distinction of being the Onfry fat wife fortress Squadron recently told Tho Story of How in met a wife a while returning from a raid Over St voice is Field preparing to land after the raid when the soft voice or a Waal Telephone operator came Over his Earp a an gilded Jim onto the runway Quot when i heard that voice sea Nottorf land that night. I determined to find out to whom it belonged said Emmerson. A a she was even nicer than her voice be 6. De. A source of says sgt. Ray Mcutchan Denver Boss of the tire shop in an Ord me cause More Aeri Oua punctures of a a a tires anything next to horseshoes the objects of humid Iowa to Vernon col t-5 Vernon Levine of san Francisco it. 3 Sirtl Volb. Sod Matthem in re nailing a tire these boys Cut out the bad part wire a on Tea Ute a dentist s drip on a decayed tooth and live our shadows coiling the Aegean to Saya Kim tie Ehy in a us round our Boot african air you Are a continent and yet somali. Mere Vapori till a san and think a leave you. Then a discover Waara now your and you Ara a you breathe us air when a breathe. _ _ but. Peter Viereck urea More often they would t have to work nearly so hard. A a a As Wmk evening shadows creep Aero a a a somewhere to North Africa the soothing can be Beard coming cram the tent of a. Walters. Of. J. At first the. I totto nth was of Mimi from a radio Bot after they could be found Avoy night listening of yes a or rhythmic swing placed to a poor Mem try to it a Vav i new York youth orchestra and played Silt to Torto of new York. Quot our tent concerts Are with the metropolitan Snoor sew Xiv. i really formal Quot said la Lasecki Quot but i enjoy playing ror mail Call Woolcott Carthage a a is a minor conflict raging in our battalion which you May be Able to arbitrate. In what branches of the army did the late Alexander Wolcott serve during world Milton b. Mild web the iou Alexander Woolcox served with the medical corps and with the stars and Thi crumbling walks of the old Romm Carthage Echo in the Bass baritone voice of la sgt. Trama former opera Eon Cert and radio singe of a urls son new York. Here he is leading the singing at a sunday worship service conducted by chaplain Herbert t. Neve of Ohio. Cpl. Homer Hathaway of Scottsbluff neb., is Chafer ads accompanist at the portable Organ. On spies dear editor it certainly is a shame about those poor spies that get caught Back in the states. They Are sentenced to 23 or 30 years in prison when All they did was help to get god knows How Many ships sunk and Navy and merchant seamen knocked off. Ftp a too bad they did no to know the Quot degree Quot of their treachery. Maybe if we treat them very Nice they wont do it again. In a damned if i can see How some Peoples minds work. In. Reference to this Man leh Metz who was arrested in new York and who claimed that he not his information from merchant seamen who frequented his establishment be is a damned liar. Por one thing except in very exceptional cases the seamen done to know where they Are bound for end of they did know they Are a pretty careful that they done to go blow big off about it. I know that Whon a Guy is trying to Clear a fouled Lifeboat on a stalking and burning ship to a Hail of machine gun bullets with his pals screaming dying and drowning aril around him he d be a very Gaea to Trade it All for a Bonk Tai what Quot degree of Treache a they Are guilty of. 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