FROM DAYS GONE BY, March 22, 1918

March 22, 1918.
REMEMBER THE MEN OF THE REGULAR ARMY.
Written by C. L. Holt, Company M, 3rd Infantry, Eagle Pass, Texas.

"The regular of our army is an independent care free fighting man who will never complain in any circumstances but we should like to say a word in behalf of this straight duty soldier who goes ahead with his task and does not whimper because the other fellows get all the goodies and attention from the folks at home.
So much has been made of our National Army men and our National Guardsmen whose home ties are perhaps stronger than those of our regulars that the man who enlisted to fight as a regular is receiving less thought and less of the good things of life.
The regular will not ask for anything except that which is due from the constituted military authorities. He can growl perhaps as frequently as any civilian but he growls only when he knows he is not getting what the law intends he shall have. For molly-coddling he cares not a bit, but he is just as human as any selective man or National guardsman in this whole broad land.
In these days when solicitude is felt for the selected man and guardsman, let some heart thought go out to the regulars. He does not get as many letters from home as the other men get. Frequently the regular has not family ties except those of the great human family but all that is appreciate when he knows he is being remembered.
No one ever asks about the fighting qualities of the regular because the question is unnecessary. He doesn't ask for kind thought or kind gifts, but he is grateful if he receives them.
The American people should not forget the foremost fighting man in the world, the regular, and they should try and convince him in some way that they appreciate the fact that he is taking his life in his hands for their sake and the sake of democracy."