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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May-December 1916

1916-08-16 Conger Reynolds to Mr. & Mrs. John Reynolds Page 19

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suddenly that you were a German I could rip you end to end with a knife and have no regret. As it is I couldn't harm a hair of your head." Much more he told, of standing ankle deep in blood running from the wounds of men who had come forward in four successive, densely-packed waves on a 100 yard front - 25,000 of them - and nearly all been shot down. He said that his battery had been filled three times from the reserves. Of the fifty who were in it when he joined, only one was yet living, when he got his last wound. "I don't know whether he's alive now or not," the young chap said. "More likely not. He's probably a land owner now, owning six feet of ground, pushing up the daisies."
 
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