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“Sergeant Burr Speaking, sir."
It happened on the drive from the’Ourcq
to the Vesle. The kid had just been made 8 Sergeant
and hadn't time to sew his new chevrons on before he
was sprawling on the ground out in No Man's Land
just before dawn with a squad of signal corps men.
His job was to set up and maintain communica-
tions, under the German machine-gun fire, until his
unit advanced. It had been an anxious half-hour at
regimental headquarters before the buzzer rang.
‘Sergeant Burr Speaking. sir.’
Everybody safe? None of them safe, but they
were all right. How far had they gone? As far as
their wire would reach. Where was Fritz? About a
hundred yards away. What was he doing? Throw-
ing over shrapnel and gas, and taking pot shots
;with machine-guns. A big bunch of machine-guns.
according to Sergeant Burr. . As it
turned out later, there were 18 nests . .
of them in one little patch of woods. quh the Job—
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call up every five minutes, then to take the other
six and make fer. the nearest shelter.
An anxious five minutes passed. The telephone
buzzed.
“Sergeant Burr speaking. sir."
“I thought I told you to take cover; what are
you doing there? ”
“I'll be hanged. " said! Sergeant Burr, "if I'll ask
any manta stay in such a place as this. No other
change, sir."._ .
So it was Sergeant Burr who made the reports
every five minutes in otder that regimental head-
quarters might know that- the wire was still Open.
Sergeant Burr is still in the Army—and he wears
the red. white and blue ribbon of the Distinguished
Service Cross now. He is with the A. E. F. guard-
ing a bridge-head alOng the German border and
he's going to stick until the finish.
The war‘s over, but-—
“Sergeant Burr speaking, sir."
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