Excerpt from Under the Lorraine Cross: An Account of the Experiences of Infantrymen Who Fought Under Captain Theodore Schoge and of Their Buddies of the Lorraine Cross Division, While Serving in France During the World War
When an ex-doughboy talks with an over-sea buddy, or dreamily gazes into the smoke and flame of a fireplace, how easily he can recall the stirring incidents of the months or years spent in the land of duck-boards and fireworks. The pretty mademoiselles, glittering jewelry displays and beautiful fashions seen on the Paris boulevards: the weird night spent on Dead Man"s Hill, when the shrieking shells of a thousand belching cannon streamed overhead onto Montfaucon; the storming of Hill 319 the evening before the armistice; and the odd incidents of life in the quaint peasant villages - these are but a few of the things that soldiers of the Lorraine Cross, who fought under Captain "Pop" Schoge, can easily recall and many limes re-live before joining the buddies "gone west" in France.
In the story which follows it is the desire and intention of the author to furnish his brothers-in-arms with a brief account of the most eventful period in the majority of their lives; and to give to any others who may be interested, as clear an idea as possible of just what their friends or loved ones experienced, thought and felt while taking an active part in the big European shoot-up. The diary, orders, maps and other souvenirs in the writer"s possession will form the basis of the account. If the pals and buddies of the old outfit approve of the work the author will feel well repaid for his efforts.
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