But because ignorant Mexicans, when their city was invaded, fired upon our sailors, we did not destroy Vera Cruz.

Even had we bombarded Vera Cruz, money could have restored that city.

Money can never restore Louvain.

Great architects and artists, dead these six hundred years, made it beautiful, and their handiwork belonged to the world.

With torch and dynamite the Germans turned those masterpieces into ashes, and all the Kaiser's horses and all his men cannot bring them back again.
When our troop train reached Louvain, the entire heart of the city was destroyed, and the fire had reached the Boulevard Tirlemont, which faces the railroad station.