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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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life in the open, out of the training and the test of battle, the boys that were in schools and stores and factories a year ago have come soldiers who inspire in the onlookers the greatest admiration and confidence. Saturday night we had dinner at the table of a general in a great old chateau. The general was not there that evening, but his staff did the trick of offering hospitality to the turn. The experience was one to stir the interest. Fancy that group of American officers entertaining a civil commission in a fourteenth century castle in the midst of all the activity of modern war! Another guest was an American woman, a friend of the general's, who has been in the French service as a nurse all through the war. I can't half tell you what a luxury it was to have an American woman at the table. She was just the magnificent spirit you would expect to find
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life in the open, out of the training and the test of battle, the boys that were in schools and stores and factories a year ago have come soldiers who inspire in the onlookers the greatest admiration and confidence. Saturday night we had dinner at the table of a general in a great old chateau. The general was not there that evening, but his staff did the trick of offering hospitality to the turn. The experience was one to stir the interest. Fancy that group of American officers entertaining a civil commission in a fourteenth century castle in the midst of all the activity of modern war! Another guest was an American woman, a friend of the general's, who has been in the French service as a nurse all through the war. I can't half tell you what a luxury it was to have an American woman at the table. She was just the magnificent spirit you would expect to find
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