“I went to appel at 11. For the last time there heard read before my company that 'le Garde Child, volontaire étranger, a été rayé de la compagnie, sur sa demande,' henceforth having no longer the right to call myself a soldier, having endured a bloodless campaign of 40 days duration without hardly seeing the enemy or firing a shot. And for such services they talk about giving everyone a medal. Why I should be ashamed to wear it!”