THE position of the ambulance driverat the front is much the same as thatof the grouse in open season: everyone has a chance to take a shot at himand he has no opportunity for retaliation.That is why so many driversentered aviation or artillery at the expirationof their term of enlistment of sixmonths.

This transferring came to an end whenthe American Government took over theAmbulance Service. From then on, alldrivers have been of necessity enlistedmen. The old American Ambulance, latercalled the American Field Service, wasa purely volunteer organization, andhad no connection with any government.It was made up of Americancitizens who left civil life, paying theirown expenses and furnishing their ownequipment, and in many cases theirambulances. These men, feeling thatAmerica owed a debt to France, bandedtogether to form the original AmericanAmbulance Service, which they laid onthe altar of their devotion to a true andgreat cause.

By virtue of the nature of his workthe ambulance driver must always be inthe warmest places, and has a really unusualopportunity to observe by movingfrom sector to sector and battle to battlewhat few other branches of the servicecan see.

I had the honor to be associated withSection XXXI of the American Field Service,and have endeavored to weave mysimple tapestry from the swiftly-movingpictures of life “in the zone” and outof it, as they passed before me.

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