Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1919 — THE FIFTY-ODD THOUSAND. [ARTICLE]

THE FIFTY-ODD THOUSAND.

New* Item: —Mor* than 51,000 Am*rl**a dbldlera killed in action and dial of wounds. Under their iittls whits cross**, . * Under th* bin* of th* sky. Under th* sod that is sacred to God, The brav* flftF-odd thousand 11*. Th*y sprang at th* sound of th* burl*, That th* fires of freedom might burn; They answered th* call and they sacrificed all— Men whs will never return. Tonder, across the Atlantic's Stormy and turbulent ■•*. Are the graves of th* men -who would perish again That th* world might b* happily fre*. Under th*lr little white cross**, 'Neath th* blue of the sky, rest the slain, A tear and a prayer for the dead ov*r there, They died, but they died not in vain.