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    "ocrText": "TO THE MEN\nOF THE\nAMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE.\nAt the great and historical moment when the American troops are landing on\nFrench soil, the Women of France extend to them a heartfelt welcome full of\ngratitude and admiration.\nThey wish that every American soldier setting foot on their dear land, could\nhear, voiced in one loud jubilating sound, all that French hearts feel for those who\nhave crossed the ocean to fight for the Liberty and Freedom of the World.\nTenderly and reverently they welcome the men from America who have come\nto help them in their hour of direful need. More tenderly and reverently still their\nvoices and hearts cry out to the Women of that distant land, to the Mothers, Wives,\nand Sweethearts who have gladly and proudly given their dear ones, and nobly done\ntheir share in the struggle for Right and Justice.\nThey feel confident that America's mighty effort will help to win the war, the\nwicked, cruel, unjust war that has caused SO many tears to flow, SO many hearts to\nbreak. They know that the men who fight under the Stars and Stripes will rid\nFrance of her foul enemy and take away from the civilized world the menace of a\nshameful slavery.\nThe Old world and the New will cling together through fair and stormy\nweather until the great day of Victory that will bring to the future generations the\nblessings of Liberty and lasting Peace.\nUnited in the same struggle for the same great ends :\nconquer we must when our cause it is just.\nAnd this be our motto, \" In God is our trust'\nLong live the United States !\nLong live France !\nLIGUE PATRIOTIQUE DES FRANÇAISES, DU HAVRE.\nLIGUE DES FEMMES FRANÇAISES, DU HAVRE.\nHavre, 4th July 1918."
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