On the second anniversary of the Armistice, an American veteran of the war looked back on his days in military training. In this article, he walked the grounds of his old cantonment wistfully recalling how each plot of ground was put to use:
“…the K.P.’s peeling potatoes at the doors of the mess hall, the prisoners digging ditches or working on the coal pile, the guards walking their posts, the officers with their ladies under the trees… Here, under these trees, were the tents of the medical staff… There were the horse-stalls… That thrill, that enthusiasm, that lofty notion that the country was greater than the man…”
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