5th Division Calendar - 1919

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[calendar dates] 5TH DIV US 1919 Red Diamond Who held Violn’s tortured mass And guarded well each mountain pass That linked La France to Belle Alsace? Red Diamond! Who Drove the Hun from out Frapelle, Patrolled him out of Fontenelle, The Ban-de-Sapt, the Plane near Celles? Red Diamond! From Regneville to Souleuvre Ferme, Thru Bois De Claude, des Grandes Portions Made Huns retreat as they came on? Red Diamond! Bois des Rappes, de le Pultiere, An on Stream, the Clery freres, Witnessed the valor of men who wear Red Diamond! Across the Meuse, the order said, The army must by you be led; In this hard task the fifth’s the head, Red Diamond! Swam river and canal, and stormed The heights on which the Huns were formed, from Dun to Remoiville there swarmed Red Diamond! The lure of peace stayed not their hand, After the foe across the land, They sped, a freeing, fighting band, Red Diamond! On pine-clad hills among the Vosges, Near Rembercourt, and where Meuse flows, In glory sleep in last repose, Red Diamond! The wind blows softly thru the firs, the sun sets red across the Meuse, Blessing thebravery of theirs, Red Diamond! Diamonds cut and never wear, Diamonds brilliant everywhere, For jewel prize, in war’s affair, Red Diamond! - H.P.