His wound was `` only a slight one '' -- but it was in his right eye and the sight is gone for ever ! '' ` One eye is enough to watch bugs with , ' Carl writes cheerfully . And we know it might have been oh so much worse ! If it had been both eyes ! But I cried all the afternoon after I saw Carl 's letter . Those beautiful , fearless blue eyes of his ! `` There is one comfort -- he will not have to go back to the front . He is coming home as soon as he is out of the hospital -- the first of our boys to return . When will the others come ? `` And there is one who will never come . At least we will not see him if he does . But , oh , I think he will be there -- when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them -- the army of the fallen . We will not see them -- but they will be there ! '' 1st September 1918 `` Mother and I went into Charlottetown yesterday to see the moving picture , `` Hearts of the World . '' I made an awful goose of myself -- father will never stop teasing me about it for the rest of my life . But it all seemed so horribly real -- and I was so intensely interested that I forgot everything but the scenes I saw enacted before my eyes . And then , quite near the last came a terribly exciting one . The heroine was struggling with a horrible German soldier who was trying to drag her away . I knew she had a knife -- I had seen her hide it , to have it in readiness -- and I could n't understand why she did n't produce it and finish the brute . I thought she must have forgotten it , and just at the tensest moment of the scene I lost my head altogether .
I just stood XXXXX up on my feet in that crowded house and shrieked at the top of my voice -- ` The knife is in your stocking -- the knife is in your stocking ! '
Canadian Carl Charlottetown German Mother afternoon first right scenes soldiers