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The boyswho get the boys across
OVER half a million of these sailor boys They don't simply “ go across." They
there are, fighting their fight in a way
that will ring down through the ages.
Manning giant battleships, swift cruisers,
lithe, lean destroyers that guard the road to
France, they are putting America into the
fight three. thousand miles' awa -~Men--.
Cuns---Food—--Ammunition.
And they're keeping us in 'the fight,
delivering the necessities of war through seas
of danger, Winter and summer, with steady,
tremendous pOWer, When the big light comes
their way, they are ready to fight, to die, to win.
have to fight their way across, to land the
men who will fight clear through to Berlin.
They are seldom mentioned. in news-
paper war headings, these sailor boys of
ours; but they are performing day by day
and hour by hour, a service without which
the war could not be won. ~
Millions of dollars must be spent each-
month to keep that service up; hundreds of
new ships now on the ways must be manned
and fitted out.
Liberty ‘ Bonds will do it--
will help these boys safeguard the boys they get across
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