Excerpt from Yanks: A. E. F. Verse The A. E. F. Was about the most sentimental outfit that ever lived. Most of it - so it seemed to anyone who served on the staff of The Stdrs and Stripes - wrote poetry. 'all of it read poetry. The Army's Poets column, in which some hundred thousand lines of verse were printed during the course of the Army newspaper's existence, was re - read, cut out, sent home, pinned or pasted up ln dugouts, Adrian barracks and mess shacks, laughed over and, in all likeli hood, weptover. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.