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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
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the service, I do not want to make any mistake. In the vestry, after mass, there was much congratulation and embracing, which form of salutation one becomes very used to here. Late that afternoon, on coming home somewhat exhausted with the various experiences of the day, I found the bride and groom of a few hours had already been to call. There, on my table, was a pretty note in broken English saying that Balistere and his woman had been to see me, and with the note a charming little blue box containing a bud and leaf of orange blossom from the bridal wreath. Was that not too charming of them? It seems that all the time I find more wonderful traits in these blind soldiers. there is a Spaniard who had taken his first naturalization papers just of the war, fortunately for him, as he has now been able to secure his complete naturaliza- M a Frenchman. He told me the toy that if he only had his sight he would ask nothing better than to re- U1 md on my protest turned to me with an expression of sur-
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Wounded in the arm, Balistere begged for just one more shot, and received then the bullet in the face which has cost him his eyes prise and said: Mais, Mademoiselle, est—ce qu'un homme juste ne doit passe battre pour une cause juste? Besides the loss of his sight, he has one partially paralyzed hand. He was, in fact, wounded in the arm, ordered to the rear, but begged for just one more shot, and received then the bullet in the face which has cost him his eyes. My chief desire for this couple is to establish them, in accordance with their own wishes, on a little piece of property in the wifes village. All the young men of the family have vanished in the whirlpool of the war, and the old people are most desirous that this now only representative should return to the land. Balistere himself has just been on a short visit, and reports that a desirable piece of property with a comfortable house can be bought for 3000 francs. This seems to me in the line of constructive work, and every young couple

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