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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, January-March 1943

1943-02-14 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 5

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ever you are, you are doing you work and still holding on to good ideas. Not goody goody but not letting good ideas go, figuring they can be put on again like civilian clothes and never affect you by going without for a while. I imagine there will be conquests by American soldiers in which our men will do violence like the enemy for retribution. To overpower and control  is the army's job, but to indulge in dastardly deeds, even against the enemy is not right. No American soldier can rape an enemy and come home as good a man. Enemy or no, such things are so far from the ideals for which we are supposed to be fighting that they would make a soldier's very military record a mockery and put him in the same class as the enemy even if the deed was too mild to be even pay back to things the enemy have done. When this is all over we'll have to

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5 ever you are, you are doing you work and still holding on to good ideas. Not goody goody but not letting good ideas go, figuring they can be put on again like civilian clothes and never affect you by going without for a while. I imagine there will be conquests by American soldiers in which our men will do violence like the enemy for retribution. To overpower and control is the army's job, but to indulge in dastardly deeds, even against the enemy is not right. No American soldier can rape an enemy and come home as good a man. Enemy or no, such things are so far from the ideals for which we are supposed to be fighting that they would make a soldier's very military record a mockery and put him in the same class as the enemy even if the deed was too mild to be even pay back to things the enemy have done. When this is all over we'll have to