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Sergeant Brown was hard to satisfy
Four machine-gun crews to his credit Was
a pretty fair record for one day’s work. But
why leave a perfectly good trench half filled
with Germans? Brdwn didn’ t.
The hail of machine-gun bullets could not
stop him.
Shrapnel was bursting all around him. He did
not heed. His rifle was so hot he couldn’t
He was not thinking of‘ them. "
touch it, so he laid it in the hollow of his arm
and kept on firing; the Huns kept on yelling
“ Kamerad ! ” and throwing down their guns.
' Brown forgot danger and death, he forgot
that he was alone against a hundred and fifty
Germans. He forgot everything but his job
--Victory. And he walked proudly into camp
with one hundred and fifty-nine prisoners.
HONDAY, 001'. 7, 1918
We’ve got a big job over here, too. We must provide guns
and shells and food and clothing for men with the spirit of
Sergeant Brown—to send them forWard to Victory. Let’s
do our job‘ as he did his—fearlessly, persistently; joyously.
Let’s lend as he foughtFIet’s buv Libertv Bonds to our utmost
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