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Brodhead's Tribute to her Men of the Service

1914-1918

Compiled by The Civics Club

©1921 Brodhead, Wisconsin (Cantwell Printing Co., Madison, Wis.)


Extracts from Letters of the Boys With the Colors

(Copied from Newspapers)
From Corporal Elmer Green (p. 105)

"I am at a camouflage station at present, driving a three ton truck. We have to haul the supplies that come from the front
two miles to a warehouse where they are checking up all these goods. Most of it is paint, burlap, canvas, and woven wire. I never thought there was so much wire and canvas in the world. This is a small camp. But Dijon is a city of about one hundred seventy-five thousand inhabitants. There are one hundred fifty of us at this camp just now. We have warm barracks to sleep in and plenty of good eats. The weather has not been very cold, and they say this is the coldest month of the year. It gets dark here at four now. There is lots of work to be done around here before we can all leave."

ELMER GREEN.


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