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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 18

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they did return their story was told in the dispatches and both were made corporals. In all his experiences he killed 400 of the enemy that he knows of. In his spare moments from bombing and using a machine-gun he was a sniper, and accounted for a lot that way. I asked him how it felt to kill men - what sensation came over him. "The first time it made me sicker than a dog;" he said, "it was when I bayoneted a man. But I soon got hardened to killing. I went to war with no personal hatred of germans. But I quickly learned it. They harmed me and they harmed my comrades. Why, I had to go through the experience of wiping the brains of my best friend off my tunic. And I have the sort of feeling now that if I were to learn
 
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