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I’d say we found the 📸 for Front End Friday. Have a great day, friends! #friends #friendship #fridayfriends #frontendfriday #friyay #weekend #friday #tgif #smile #happyfridayeveryone #fridayvibes #fef #frontend #faceoff #happyfriday #instagood #fridayfeeling #goodmorning #happyweekend #weekendvibes #fridaymood #goodvibes #cdljob #cdljobs #cdlhunter Follow @cdlhunter https://www.instagram.com/p/CY_gwVZLQGR/?utm_medium=tumblr
Here is a image from the Patrick Samway Collection of two #fridayfriends - Andre Dubus II (1936-1999) and Patrick Samway, S.J. Dubus is the father of Andre Dubus III (author of “House of Sand and Fog”), and was born in Lafayette LA. He was primarily known as a short story writer with his short story “Killings” being made into the film “In the bedroom.” Samway is an ordained Jesuit priest, teacher, and author of books on Southern writers and such as Walker Percy, Flannery O’Connor among others. [Image description: Dubus is sitting in a wheelchair wearing a black shirt and pants with a bandanna tied around his left thigh with Samway standing behind him in his priesthood collar situated on the back deck of a residence on a sunny day with broad smiles on there faces] #southernliterature #andredubusii #writers #authors #archives #jesuits https://www.instagram.com/p/CWL7l3MpDNl/?utm_medium=tumblr
Good Morning!
WW1 Awesome American soldiers’ morning routine at camp.
“I just found a dog. He is beautiful and very affectionate. I will do all I can to keep him with me. He will be my companion.”
WW1 French soldier’s diary -- Carnet de Guerre d’Emile Serre – Chtimiste – Photo : WW 1, French truck driver with his doggy in the Marne sector, France. La Contemporaine
“I am not afraid... I was born to do this”
Joan of Arc
‘The Jeanne d'Arc statue is still uninjured. But the famous Cathedral, the first target of the German cannon, is slowly being chipped to pieces.
Reims is the worst specimen of war's destruction most of us has ever seen. This once flourishing city, home to factories and prosperous shops and stores, is being battered to a pulp. Street after street, home after home, is only a mere suggestion of what it has been.
In and around the city, every building seems to have been struck. Great mill chimneys are broken away, machinery are twisted and ruined, walls lay flat, or stood mutilated in a vain attempt to mark a house or a store.
This sights stirred us even more than the one of the Cathedral, still beautiful even under its wounds.’
WW1 American ambulance driver’s notes – History of Section 647 – Photo: September 15 1917 - The statue of Jeanne d’Arc (seen from the back) erected front of the Cathedral of Reims - The statue was later removed to protect it against the constant bombardments from the Germans and reinstalled after the war - Section photographique de l’armée
’I am driving a five-ton Pierce-Arrow truck these days instead of a Ford, and hauling thousands of pounds of death up to batteries, instead of bringing back the dying. I am doing something positive — not negative. At the same time I am making sketches of this first unit of American soldiers for magazines and books of propaganda in America. It is an order for which I am not paid, but which I willingly accept.
We are the first American soldiers in France, and we carry rifles and are a part of the war machine, ready for fight and defense and prison camps, all of which the ambulance is not. Other colleges are joining us and soon we shall be quite a regiment.
I can tell you nothing of my trip; it is too great. You see I am in Paradise, that's all I can say.
Bien a toi, mon ami’
About the American trucks, a skeptical French officer wrote in a report “We were not sure if these Pierce-Arrows could carry 7.5 tons of material without being specially equipped... But the tanks were loaded anyway and the transport went ahead rather smoothly.”
June 1917, France - Letter of an American volunteer who started as an ambulance driver, then truck driver and finally aviator, later killed in action in the skies of France – A Poet of the Air – Photo: June 2 1917, in Jouaignes, rare photo showing French officers greeting the freshly trained American volunteers who will be driving the munition trucks to the front. Note the drivers’rifles and the trucks in the background! More about the Camion Section here
“Give me good friends. I do not ask for more.”
WW1 American ambulance driver’s verses. -- Turmoil - Photo: April 1917, Sainte Menenould in Argonne, France - A very cool and rare shot, showing BFF American ambulance drivers and French soldiers, posing on a Ford Model T ambulance.Thank you, Monsieur Picard! Images de 14-18
Friends.
100 years ago, in Le Havre, France, French, British, and Belgian soldiers holding hands. Gallica-France
