Triumphant Procession
for American Soldiers
Describing his march through Lorraine, Lieut. Wade V.
Bowman, under date of November 28, tells Mrs. Bowman that he will never forget
the thing she witnessed in the province which America has helped France to
regain. In every town the soldiers march under arches of flowers, “Welcome,”
and the inhabitants cry “Long live America! Long live France!” and hail the
Yankees as liberators. Little children and girls throw flowers at the soldiers
and it is a triumphant procession. They run alongside of Lt. Bowman’s horse,
and he is a spoiled man, he admits, especially since he has had very little of
the food he liked so much at home—milk, butter and eggs. He is anxious to
return and is longing for the day.
The next day Lt. Bowman wrote again. He was smoking his pipe
in a comfortable Alsatian home, where the people invited him down to drink wine
and offered to converse with him in either French or German, but he was not
strong on either language. He was longing to return to his loved ones in
Hickory, he said, and his pipe reminded him of home.
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