"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile. While you've a LUCIFER* to light your FAG*, smile boys, that's the style, What's the use of worrying, it never was worthwhile, so, pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile. smile..."
Herewith a graphic showing the LUCIFERS* that WWI "Doughboys: used to light their FAGS*
AS YOU HAVE NOW LEARNED IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW, TO THE "DOUBOYS" OF WWI, A LUCIFER WAS A MATCH,
AND FAG WAS A CIGARETTE.
AND FAG WAS A CIGARETTE.
The matches remind me of my Dad's matchbook cover collection. He wrote people all over the country, after the War. He also played chess games via postcards, with his WWII Marine buddies. Heaven forbid, we boys messed up his board(s). Took him a long time to finish those games, but a great way to stay in touch with buddies.
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