1. “A Canteen Man.” 2. An Old Soldier—Sergeant Banks, 10th U. S. C. 3. Playing Ball at Camp No. 1, St. Nazaire. 4. Our Military Policeman. 5. An Electrician.
These non-combatant troops challenged the very best in those welfare workers who could appreciate the tremendous undercurrent of their lives and their rigid determination to be loyal to the country they served. Always during our days and nights with them, the urge and desire to serve was so keen as to make us forget the loss and strain of physical strength. Our greatest effort was centered in keeping constantly before them this truth so beautifully expressed by James Weldon Johnson:
That banner which is now the type
Of victory on field and flood,
Remember its first crimson stripe
Was dyed by Attuck’s willing blood.
And never yet has come the cry,—
When this fair flag had been assailed
For men to do, for men to die,