The Cross in the Desert

When the doughboys climbed out of the muddy, rat-infested trenches of World War I after the Germans hoisted surrender flags in 1918, their dreams of going home became something more. A few years earlier, they had sung with gusto about going “Over There,” telling the world, “We won’t come back till it’s over, over there.” The dream that sent them off to fight the “war to end all wars�