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COOTIES I've hunted the Hun in the Argonne,  At camouflage they were expert, Hard hunting 'twas true, but far harder to do Was to find the last "coot" in your shirt. RATS Of all the beasts that roam in France The fiercest are the rats. They fear not guns nor bombs nor men, They often kill the cats. On bunks and floor all night they play  And practice squad formation. They steal our eats and steal our sox  We supply their army ration. One night old Jim woke with a yell Most piteous to hear. He dreamed a bullet bored him through   A rat had chewed his ear.  There 're rats in dugouts, trench and field,

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    COOTIESI've hunted the Hun in the Argonne,

    At camouflage they were expert,

    Hard hunting 'twas true, but far harder to do

    Was to find the last "coot" in your shirt.

    RATSOf all the beasts that roam in France

    The fiercest are the rats.

    They fear not guns nor bombs nor men,

    They often kill the cats.On bunks and floor all night they play

    And practice squad formation.

    They steal our eats and steal our sox

    We supply their army ration.

    One night old Jim woke with a yellMost piteous to hear.

    He dreamed a bullet bored him through

    A rat had chewed his ear.

    There 're rats in dugouts, trench and field,

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    They thrive in every weather.

    Tho ' armies come and armies go,

    The rats increase forever.

    Last night we went out as usual, crawling through the

    Boche wire we suspected the Fritz laid in wait to

    ambush us suddenly we heard the smothered cough

    directly in front of us. And then the ground seem tospring up in one great roaring flame and we knew it ha

    been a trap the only thing to do was to back out the

    way we came all this time they continued to pepper u

    with grenades and pistols once again within our own

    wire the firing stopped and I took account of losses.

    AHearn was hit five times all around his hips and thigh

    Lieut. Brown had his face looking like a piece of beef an

    for the men including Williams had been hit in the ches

    and limbs then for the first time I looked at my watch

    Only a half hour since we went out until we got back.

    Edward Luckett, in a letter to his wi

    Pleasure around here there isnt much except reading

    your shirt, which means to look it over for cooties. And a

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    for rats, they are the size of a five year old tomcat. You

    cant scare them. They crawl all over your bunks, and if

    you knock them down the just come right back again. If

    the Boche had as much nervous the rats were trench

    rabbits as we call them, we certainly would have a timeof it.

    Private William Bisho

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    This is the wettest muddiest country I ever saw, it has

    been raining steadily for seven weeks. I stepped in a

    mudhole the other night and went up to my waist in mu

    and didnt get to change clothes and in fact I havent

    changed yet. I havent changed for over two months andhavent even had my clothes off for that length of time.

    Ive not had a bath for six weeks and none in sight

    Corporal Albert Smi

    Gas shells started to come in great numbers I was about

    buried by a shell in a few seconds later a big Gashell we

    off within 20 feet of me. Something hit me on the head,

    making a big dent in my helmet and raising a bump on

    my head. If it hadnt been for my helmet my headwouldve been cracked. As it was I was dazed, knocked

    down in my gas mask and knocked off. I got several

    breathes of a strong gas solution right from the shell

    before it got diluted with much air. If it hadnt been for

    the fellow with me I probably wouldnt be writing this

    letter because I couldnt see, my eyes were running wateand burning, so was my nose and I could hardly breathe

    Stull Ho

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    We were charging machine guns and men were being c

    down like grass all around me. Then I was hit and fell,

    and couldnt get up. I laidthere on the battlefield for

    three days and was assumed dead. So man came by and

    said: Fields what the hell you doing laying there? Theman picked [me up and carried me] three miles to the

    aid station. Gangrene had already set up, in they

    amputated my leg just below the knee. I was passing in

    and out of consciousness during the whole time and they

    never recognized the man that carried me to safety. Ive

    always regretted never knowing the man that saved mylife.

    Private Clifton R. Field

    Company D, 128thInfant

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    Some of the hardest fighting American troops were

    those in segregated black infantry units that were par

    of the final push to victory in the fall of 1918. The 369

    Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighter

    served in the trenches 191 days longer than any othUS unit and was the first Allied regiment to break

    through the German lines and reaches the Rhine Rive

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    Men fought to kill, to maim, to destroy. Some return

    home, others remain behind forever on the fields of the

    greatest sacrifice. There was a war, the great war, and

    now its over.

    Lt. Lewis Plus

    I have a rendezvous with Death

    At some disputed barricade,

    When Spring comes back with rustling shadeAnd apple-blossoms fill the air

    I have a rendezvous with Death

    When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

    It may be he shall take my hand

    And lead me into his dark landAnd close my eyes and quench my breath

    It may be I shall pass him still.

    I have a rendezvous with Death

    On some scarred slope of battered hill,

    When Spring comes round again this year

    And the first meadow-flowers appear.Alan Seeger

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    We flew together

    In the tall blue sky.

    We fought together

    With bombs and gains.

    We ate together

    In the squadron mess.

    We danced together

    To the old gramophone.

    We walked togetherIn the fields of France.

    We talked together

    Of home and tomorrow.

    We flew together

    In the tall blue sky.Many were killed;

    The world is no better.

    Lt. Curtis Kinney

    The morale of our soldiers depends

    upon their fighting under our own

    flag.

    Gen. John J Pershing, 1918

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    My lungs were sore, my throat burned,

    my vocal chords were affected, and I

    coughed deeply.Daniel Poling, 1918

    There was no breeze on the hot June

    night to carry the gas away my

    nostrils stayed raw for several days

    scratches on your body you were keptirritated by the gas.

    US Marine Carl Brannen

    Every soldier at the moment of battletrembles, is afraid and wishes he could

    escape from it. Each one is watchful lest

    a companion may read fear in his face

    the whole regiment goes into battle,

    playing the part of bravery, yet sick of

    the whole business.Will Judy

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    Our trenches were about 800 yards

    from the German trenches A grenade

    struck the parapet in front of us and my

    buddies and I were hit we were

    helpless.Clyde Grimsley

    One soldier wrote: "The rats were huge.

    They were so big they would eat a

    wounded man if he couldn't defendhimself."

    Most of the time our biggest

    excitement was rat shooting. God they

    were big! Some look like small dogs.

    Sargent Earl Goldsmith, 32nddivision

    We came into this war without an

    army so now we must build an entireorganization.

    General John J. Pershing

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    To the youth of America world war

    one was the great adventure. Very few

    of them had ever been outside the

    United States but now after Uncle Sam

    trained them they would have anopportunity to visit France.

    Lieutenant George C. Kenny

    Eachtrench had dug out of box. You

    take your term sitting in the trenches,then go back into the dugouts. The

    bunks are all full of cooties. During six

    weeks I never took a bath when we

    left the area, they took us to this

    medical center where they tookall

    our cruddy clothing and burned it. Didit stink!

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    I must have inhaled a lot of gas. I

    suddenly found myself on my back,

    gasping for breath, unable to get any

    air into my lungs, and deftly sick at my

    stomach. I was able to get my gas maskon, and a few whiffs of air put me right

    again.

    Medical Officer Bernard J. Gallagher

    Some of them cursed and raved some

    shook violently some trembled

    while others simply stood speechless.

    Major William E Boyce

    Real shell shock was the actual

    scrambling of a mans brain by

    concussion. If youve ever seen a man

    actually lose his wits through shelling,

    youd never forget it. The poor guysbecame jabbering idiots.

    Sargent Merrit D. Cutler

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    It was this period that made us tough.

    We got tough, we stayed tough.

    Marine Sargent Gerald C.

    Thomas

    The time may come, when the

    American army will have to stay in the

    brunt of this war. It would be a grave

    mistake to give up the idea of building

    an American army in all its details asrapidly as possible.

    General Pershing

    The only interest and romance in this

    war was in the air.American Brigadier General Billy

    Mitchell

    I found myself adrift in a blind world of

    whiteness in noise, groping oversomething like the surface of the

    moon half filled with rusty tangles of

    wire.

    American soldier

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    ...its a miserable life, shivering in these

    wretched holes in the dirt...living in our

    own holes in the ground, only showingour heads outside to fight and to feed.

    Allen Seeger, American poet

    Humanity is mad! It must be met to do

    what it is doing. What a massacre.What scenes of horror encourage! I

    cannot find words to translate my

    impressions. Hell cannot be so terrible.

    Men are mad!

    Second Lieutenant Alfred Joubaire

    Boy, these cooties are great; I don't

    think that they ever sleep, or if they do,

    they sure do leave a large detail awake

    to keep us busy."John Joseph Brennan

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    "I had been scared several times in my

    life before, but now that I could hear

    these shells coming over I really began

    to know what fear was..."

    Quiren M. Groessl

    "An infantryman cannot combat shells.

    All he can do is get away or be dug in so

    deeply that none will injure him."Mark Lewis McCave

    It was forty days of unremitting hell. In

    fact, the comparison is hardly fair tohell.

    WWI Soldier

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    "The worst of all is the men lieing

    around that have never [been] burried.

    You can hardly step with out step[p]ing

    on skeletons and graves the shells have

    blown some that have been burried outof the ground and you can walk along

    in the trenches and see their guts

    sticking out from the edge of the

    trenches..."

    Private M. B. Person

    The nerves of the Americans are still

    unshaken. They are a very worthy

    opponent and have a careless

    confidence.

    Unnamed German soldier

    I didnt even want to take a dead

    mouse out of a trap when I was home.Robert Hoffman

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    This dressing station to which the

    wounded men are brought is about an

    eighth of a mile from the front line.

    Shells were whistling overhead and on

    both sides.Guy Bowerman Jr

    On the stroke of 11 the cannon stopped, the riflesdropped from the shoulders, the machine guns grew stil

    There followed a strange, unbelievable silence is though

    the world had died.

    Stars & Stripes, 191

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    Ack-Ack- anti-aircraft artillery.

    Belly Flopping- hitting the ground quickly during an attack.

    Brass Hat- a high ranking officer; named because of the

    gold decoration on their hats.

    Bully Beef- canned beef that is boiled or pickled; a staple of

    the British Army.

    Duckboard- wooden flooring used on the bottom of

    trenches, used to avoid getting wet.

    Egg Bomb- a type of hand-held bomb that had excellent

    throwing range.

    Gasper- a cheap cigarette.

    Land Crabs- another name for a tank.

    Monkey Meat- a canned beef and carrot mixture from

    South American, consumed by American soldiers.

    Potato Masher- standard German hand grenade; also

    known as a stick grenade.

    Whizz Bang- a type of artillery shell. Soldiers would heard

    the whizz noise of a travelling shell, followed by the bang

    issued by the gun itself.

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