Monthly Archives: May 2014

A Glimpse of War from a WWI Veteran

“Except for the rumbling of heavy shells high overhead and the occasional swoosh of a magnesium flare as they slowly parachute down over no man’s land bathing it in an eerie glow, it has been a comparatively quiet night.” Quiren M. Groessl, a German-American from Algoma, Wisconsin, described the early morning of May 28, 1918.…