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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-19 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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the air can see it. The sounding of the alerte tonight is ridiculous, anyway. The sky is overcast with clouds, and bombers don't fly on cloudy nights. I have been out today on an inspection trip. I went to see how one of our lieutenants whom we sent recently to represent us with a subordinate headquarters is getting along. With me I took a new lieutenant who is to go to another headquarters. This chap is a little, pale fellow, not very prepossessing in appearance but very military in spite of his newspaper experience. He's a first lieutenant, and I've been having no end of secret fun at his very evident mystification and near-disgust at being put in charge of a second loot for training and probably for his work thereafter. We don't hold strictly to the the military way of placing command in the press section. It often happens that a first lieutenant works under a second in actual practice, though outside of the work the usual formalities are observed. This bird is the first who has shown any antipathy for the procedure, but I 'low he will soon get accustomed to it if he lasts. We had no particularly interesting experiences. Our business was soon accomplished. We had lunch at a café, where I listened to the Frenchmen at the next table damning the Americans for causing prices of everything
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the air can see it. The sounding of the alerte tonight is ridiculous, anyway. The sky is overcast with clouds, and bombers don't fly on cloudy nights. I have been out today on an inspection trip. I went to see how one of our lieutenants whom we sent recently to represent us with a subordinate headquarters is getting along. With me I took a new lieutenant who is to go to another headquarters. This chap is a little, pale fellow, not very prepossessing in appearance but very military in spite of his newspaper experience. He's a first lieutenant, and I've been having no end of secret fun at his very evident mystification and near-disgust at being put in charge of a second loot for training and probably for his work thereafter. We don't hold strictly to the the military way of placing command in the press section. It often happens that a first lieutenant works under a second in actual practice, though outside of the work the usual formalities are observed. This bird is the first who has shown any antipathy for the procedure, but I 'low he will soon get accustomed to it if he lasts. We had no particularly interesting experiences. Our business was soon accomplished. We had lunch at a café, where I listened to the Frenchmen at the next table damning the Americans for causing prices of everything
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