Nowadays, Lucien and Yvette Grodidier live at the Colony Nancienne in the old Chateau at Caen. There they can go to school without interruptions; they can play out of doors safely; they are not even waked up anymore by air raids, nor do they have to live half their lives in cellars. Best of all they are "Stars and Stripes Children" with a whole company of American God-fathers to be good to them. Yvette is to have a doll. The last one she had was broken in 1914 when a Boche officer kicked it while she was playing with it in the street of the little town that was a pleasant home till the war brought the Germans and the terror. It is Company L of the 161st U.S. Infantry to whom Yvette writes: "It is my sole wish to make acquaintance with the good people who help us and give them a hearty shake-hand." The AMERICAN RED CROSS administers the funds for the maintanence of all the children adopted by the American troops