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Remember through the hours of pain that he with all his brothers
Is battling there to win again a happy world for mothers.
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Runner McGee
(Who had “Return if Possible” orders)
“You’ve heard a good deal of the telephone wires,” he said as we sat at our ease,
And talked of the struggle that’s taking men’s lives in these terrible days o’er the seas,
“But I’ve been through the thick of the thing and I know when a battle’s begun,
It isn’t the phone you depend on for help. It’s the legs of a boy who can run.
“It isn’t because of the phone that I’m here.
Today you are talking to me
Because of the grit and the pluck of a boy.
His title was Runner McGee.
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