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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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do at home. When I hear of things preachers have said from the pulpits - and contrast with that sights like I saw yesterday of splendid, clear-eyed boys crowding around those men from their state to send simple, heart-touching messages back to their mothers - I want to go back and help thrash the slandering low-lived hypocrites that spread those vicious, Hun-propagated tales. Our soldiers are putting their very souls into the grueling job they have. They pride themselves in keeping fit and in "looking up at the sky," as General ------- put it yesterday. Why can't everybody get behind them? If you hear anybody telling some mother or sweetheart that her soldier in France is on the road to hell, just tell that person for me, beloved, that it's a lie of the most damnable sort, and tell the wife or
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do at home. When I hear of things preachers have said from the pulpits - and contrast with that sights like I saw yesterday of splendid, clear-eyed boys crowding around those men from their state to send simple, heart-touching messages back to their mothers - I want to go back and help thrash the slandering low-lived hypocrites that spread those vicious, Hun-propagated tales. Our soldiers are putting their very souls into the grueling job they have. They pride themselves in keeping fit and in "looking up at the sky," as General ------- put it yesterday. Why can't everybody get behind them? If you hear anybody telling some mother or sweetheart that her soldier in France is on the road to hell, just tell that person for me, beloved, that it's a lie of the most damnable sort, and tell the wife or
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