“Many of his stories deal with the changes in spirit and practice that
have followed the sharing of hardships. All the Marines were ‘his
boys.’
“‘What a pother they’d have made in the old days of peace back home if
they had caught me at a mistake I made the other night,’ he said. ‘In
the confusion just before the attack I heard the confession of one old
sinner of a sergeant. He got half-way through before I discovered that
he was not a Catholic.’
[Illustration:
_Drawn by Joseph Cummings Chase._