A Salute to the Brave of Oise-Aisne

The fallen here paid the ultimate price to crush the last German offensive of World War I and to secure the armistice that took place 100 days later. 

An offering of just-plucked flowers to remember the fallen. Phil Butler

He kneels to pluck a tiny chamomile flower. I don’t know what he’s thinking, but his sweet face is focused and grave. His darling little fingers go on plucking one, two, three white-and-yellow dots from the jade-green grass. Then, he marches to the somber chalk guardians of the field, those disciplined whitewashed monuments that mark the last halt for so many brave men and places the flowers on the arm of a cross. He stops, and I read the words engraved on the front of the headstone:

“Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.”