[Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington]@TWC D-Link bookRamsey Milholland CHAPTER XVIII 4/18
They're _over there_ right now; they haven't said much--they just packed up and went.
They're flying for France and for England and for Canada; they're fighting under every flag on the right side of the Western Front; and they're driving ambulances at Verdun and ammunition trucks at the Somme. Well, there's going to be a lot more American boys on all these jobs mighty soon, on account of what those men did in Congress to-day.
If they won't give us a chance to do something under our own flag, then we'll have to go and do it under some other flag; and I want to tell you I'm one that's going to _go!_ I'll stick it out in college up to Easter, and then if there's still no chance to go under the Stars and Stripes I'll maybe have to go under the flag my great-great-grandfather fought against in 1776, but, anyhow, I'll _go!_" It was in speaking to Ramsey of this declaration that Dora said Fred was a "dangerous firebrand." They were taking another February walk, but the February was February, 1917; and the day was dry and sunny.
"It's just about a year ago," she said. "What is ?" Ramsey asked. "That first time we went walking.
Don't you remember ?" "Oh, _that_ day? Yes, I remember it was snowing." "And so cold and blowy!" she added.
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