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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918

1918-04-29 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 7

greatest efficiency in destruction and torture. And I regard with the greatest admiration the men who are giving their souls and bodies to the terrible task. More honor to them and more power to them!
I am enclosing a letter that came recently from Monsieur Coulan, chiefly because it has a paragraph of nice words about you. The rest will interest you, too, and afford you an excercise in deciphering both handwriting and French some time next summer when you are studying the latter.
And now -- not to finish too dismally let me tell you what the cook on the hospital train told Judge Lindsey the other day. The judge had asked him what he thought of all the Algerians, Morrocans, and the French niggers. "Well, sah," he replied, "They's different, sah. You see, sah, we's Americans, we is, but those niggahs they's jes plain Africans." I love you always. Conger
Conger Reynolds. 2nd Lt. A.G.D.
Passed Censored 4.37 A.E.F.

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greatest efficiency in destruction and torture. And I regard with the greatest admiration the men who are giving their souls and bodies to the terrible task. More honor to them and more power to them! I am enclosing a letter that came recently from Monsieur Coulan, chiefly because it has a paragraph of nice words about you. The rest will interest you, too, and afford you an excercise in deciphering both handwriting and French some time next summer when you are studying the latter. And now -- not to finish too dismally let me tell you what the cook on the hospital train told Judge Lindsey the other day. The judge had asked him what he thought of all the Algerians, Morrocans, and the French niggers. "Well, sah," he replied, "They's different, sah. You see, sah, we's Americans, we is, but those niggahs they's jes plain Africans." I love you always. Conger Conger Reynolds. 2nd Lt. A.G.D. Passed Censored 4.37 A.E.F.