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_En route for the Front_
It appeals to the French people that so many Americans are standing by
them in their tragic hours. The little that we in America have actually
done seems small, indeed, compared with the size of the situation,
but its main object and its main effect are to show to the people of
France that we believe in them and in the justice of their cause;
that we still remember what they did for us in the darkest hour of
our own history; and that, as members of a great sister Republic, our
hearts and hopes are with them in this most unnecessary war. All day
long, wherever we have stopped, people have come out and offered us
flowers and fruit and food and friendly greetings, very much as our
ancestors of a hundred and forty years ago must have offered them to
the compatriots of Lafayette.
[Illustration: AN INSPECTION TRIP IN ALSACE