The Mentor: Guynemer, The Wingèd Sword of France, Vol. 6, Num. 18, Serial No. 166, November 1, 1918

LEARN ONE THING EVERY DAY
NOVEMBER 1 1918
SERIAL NO. 166
THE MENTOR GUYNEMER THE WINGÈD SWORD OF FRANCE
By HOWARD W. COOK
DEPARTMENT OF BIOGRAPHY
VOLUME 6 NUMBER 18
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By Commandant Brocard, of the “Stork Squadron”
For more than two years all of us have seen him cleaving the heavens above our heads, the heavens lighted up by shining sun or darkened by lowering tempests, bearing upon his poor wings a part of our dreams, of our faith in success, of all that our hearts held of confidence and hope.
“Guynemer was a powerful idea in a frail body, and I lived near him with the secret sorrow of knowing that some day the idea would slay the container.
“Poor boy! All the children of France, who wrote to him daily, to whom he was the marvelous ideal, vibrated with all his emotions, lived through his joys and suffered his dangers. He will remain to them the living model hero, greatest in all history. They love him as they have learned to love the purest glories of our country.