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Finnish. Jews. and so forth. but Americans100 per cent Americans at thatand that our proGermans were nearly nil. We found that the immigrant who recently landedthe poor " illiterate foreigner." the "scum." as some called them falselywas as good an American and just as willing to fight and die as gladly as the men from other States who boasted that their forefathers came over in the Mayflower. or the descendants of the early settlers of Virginia. Maryland. and the Carolinas. These immigrants were only doing what had been done in all wars. Together with many of my friends. I was a volunteer in 1898. and was a member of Company F.