Contents

List of Illustrations

“For Democracy, Humanity, and Justice”

Introduction, by Emilio Zamora

The 360th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division

Mexican Americans in the Great War, by J. Luz Sáenz

Preface

Prologue

My Personal Diary

Reporting at New Braunfels

The Brigade Station

Camp Travis

France

How Carrejo and Four Others Died

A Horrible Night in “No Man’s Land”

Toul, Choloy, and Rampondt

Moving across the Rubble of the Battlefield to Reach the Enemy and Occupy the Line of Fire: Montfaucon and Dead Man’s Hill

Five Days and Nights in a Foxhole in Romagne

How We Destroyed Hindenburg’s Impregnable Trenches

Simón González and Others

Hipólito Jasso Receives a Shrapnel Wound

Dark Night, Cold Night, Horrible Night in Villers-devant-Dun

Armistice Day

Memorable March from Pont-Sassy, France

Memories of the European War, Our Last Campaign, Five Days and Nights

Thanksgiving and Then to Germany

In Zeltingen, Alemania, by the Moselle

Mexican Americans Attend School

The Texans and Oklahomans: An Occasion for Drawing on a Postcard

Prodding That Produces Favorable Results

Article of War No. 105 and 2,175 Bottles of Champagne

A Portrait of Zeltingen

On the Last Cattle Train and Cars 40 and 8

The Mongolia, American Steamship

How Boston Receives Us

Demobilizing the 90th Division

Epilogue: The Voice of a Claim That Demands Justice

To the Memory of the Mexican American Heroes Who Died in the Great World War Defending the Democratic Principles of the American Union

List of Honor

Notes

Index