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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 16

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to recover from what would otherwise have been a slight wound. The second time, he got a spent bullet in his waist. With a pair of pincers he was carrying he pulled the bullet out himself, applied his first aid bandage and went on in the attack. Another time he got a shell splinter in his eye which damaged but did not destroy his eyesight. Then some shrapnel raked a few furrows along the side of his head. It took some time to get over that. In March of this year he was walking along a trench one day. Just as he turned a corner a German sniper got him. He woke up 16 days later in a hospital in England to learn that he had a bullet in his left lung. It's there yet and after three months getting over the wound he's through
 
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