An uncredited correspondent for The Stars & Stripes recalled all that he saw on that joyous Paris night of November 11, 1918:
"Yank and Aussie and Jock, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Pole, Checko-Slovak, Tommy, Indian, all from the newly arrived Brazilians to the wizened and and weather-beaten poilus wearing the seven bisques denoting four years in the furnace, knew no nationality, no difference of tongues or even of uniform."
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