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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 30., With company E, 101st Infantry, in the world war. (search)
of the Vosges mountains. But not our luck to be quartered in the city; we had to hike five kilometers, with our new packs on our backs, out to a very small village having one street, a condition famous in rural France. This village was called Villars; here we spent about four months in training. Villars was a beautiful place surrounded by sharply rising hills, which at some places were almost mountains. We had our quarters in an old plaster-made grain-mill, and there two hundred and fiftVillars was a beautiful place surrounded by sharply rising hills, which at some places were almost mountains. We had our quarters in an old plaster-made grain-mill, and there two hundred and fifty men lived for four months. It was a long, narrow building about two hundred feet long and fifty feet wide. There were two floors, one hundred and twenty-five men on each floor. A small stream flowed through the village on its winding way down from the Vosges. In this stream we made our toilet morning, noon and night. Sometimes we took a bath in this stream. Of course taking a bath in a stream of icy water in November or December has its drawbacks. Therefore only a small number bathed in