The Glory of the Coming; What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace And Allied Endeavor
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The aviator is the one ex- ception to a common rule. To him falls the great adventure. He goes jousting in the blue lists of the sky, helmeted and corseleted like a crusader of old. His lance is a spitting machine gun. His steed is a twentieth-century Pegasus, with wings of fine linen and guts of tried steel. Thousands of envying eyes follow him as he steers his single course to wage his single com- bat, and if he takes his death up there it is a [144! ] ACES UP : clean, quick, merciful death h...igh above the muck and more and jets of noxious laboratory fumes where the rest take theirs. Even the surroundings of the birdman's nest are physically nore attractive than the habitat of his brother at arms who bides below. I can think of nothing homelier in outline or colour than the shelters — sometimes of planking, some- times of corrugated iron, sometimes of earth — in which the soldiers hide here in France. Tfie field hospital is apt to be a distressingly plain structure of unpainted boards with sandbags banked against it.
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