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BEING THE NARRATIVE OF BATTERY A OF THE 101st FIELD ARTILLERY
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alongside a huge liner bearing on its stern the name "SS Agememnon". Wide doors were opened in its side, and into these we poured.
At last we had shaken the mud of France from our feet. Eighteen months and twenty-three days had passed since we had seen America, and now our wildest dream was being realized—we were going home. For all those months "home" for us had meant a French barn, a dugout, a pup-tent, a shell-hole—we had scarce dared to look further ahead than that— and now those long months sank into insignificance as the realization surged in upon us that we were going Home, Home, Home.
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