Private DeFay

Don't these two photographs look peaceful?  With the trees in the background, it gives the impression of a kid playing soldier, with no real war in the future.  I don't know when these were taken, but it seems that we can't go a decade with out some sort of war.  With any luck he became such a good builder of foxholes and trenches that the bullets flew over his head and never hit the mark.   Labeled DeFay.