Things About Camp Cody And Deming The “Folks Back Home” Want To Know – Part 3 of 4

All Real Roses Have Thorns.

The Trench and Camp is not violating any “army orders” when it says no real roses grow without thorns, the chief thorns on our American Beauty bush being the fine particles of sand that have too intimate a relationship with the wind that sweeps the Pacific microbes toward the Atlantic seaboard. Mud is always a minus quantity at Camp Cody.

Part of Finest Army Ever Known.

It is a source of tremendous satisfaction to know that the officers who have the great responsibility of administering the affairs of Camp Cody, from the commanding general down, represent the best type of American citizenship, which earns the cream of Christendom, and it is pleasing to note in this connection that the rank and file form a part of the finest army known to the civilized world. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – July 4, 1918

Iowa Troops At Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico, 1917-1918