Soldiers of the Legion - Trench-Etched

"Good luck, my soldier! You Americans are an extraordinary people. You are complex. We have thought we understood you—but, we do not. We never know what you will do next."I asked my French landlady, who thus responded to the news that I had joined the Foreign Legion, for an explanation. She said:"In the early days of the war, when the Germans advanced upon Paris at the rate of thirty kilometers a ...