15 Oct, 2016
Walking toward the guns
The Preface from Courage: Roy Blanchard's Journey in America's Forgotten War
Within the ranks of khaki-clad American soldiers was nineteen-year-old Roy Blanchard. Smartly, he marched away from Paris and toward German lines on a narrow road, in line with nearly 4,700 fellow soldiers of the 126th infantry regiment. Four men made up a row, twenty-five rows of men made up a platoon, and one-hundred yards separated each platoon. Most of these men were teenagers like Roy, drawn from the American