Your father was in the thick of it in Mexico.

Remember the lines: "We were not many, we who stood Before the iron sleet that day; Yet many a gallant spirit would Give half his years if he but could Have been with us at Monterey." "I remember them," said Harry, much stirred.

"I have heard my father quote them.

He was at Monterey and he says that the Mexicans fought well.

I was at Frankfort, the capital of our state, myself with him, when they unveiled the monument to our Kentucky dead and I heard them read O'Hara's poem which he wrote for that day.