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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-01 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6
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mother or sweetheart that the soldier whom the Creator permits to return will have the steel in him that a furnace in which burns fires of sacrifice and devotion and clean living has tempered. I'll take a chance myself on picking out of any company more real men than can be found among all the slackers in a large community. Excuse please the violence, I had to relieve the pressure that has been gathering as I boiled at the injustice of the sort of thing I've been hearing about. Every day almost I am seeing more of our troops and getting to know them better. And they are such a splendid lot! I wish I could do something to make their worth fully appreciated. But I doubt if it can be done. One has to see them and know them.
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mother or sweetheart that the soldier whom the Creator permits to return will have the steel in him that a furnace in which burns fires of sacrifice and devotion and clean living has tempered. I'll take a chance myself on picking out of any company more real men than can be found among all the slackers in a large community. Excuse please the violence, I had to relieve the pressure that has been gathering as I boiled at the injustice of the sort of thing I've been hearing about. Every day almost I am seeing more of our troops and getting to know them better. And they are such a splendid lot! I wish I could do something to make their worth fully appreciated. But I doubt if it can be done. One has to see them and know them.
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