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Robert Morriss Browning correspondence to Mabel C. Williams, May-July 1917

1917-06-25 Robert M. Browning to Miss Mabel Williams Page 5

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what it is up here. I have had my name taken twice, too. Once I was first lieutenant when a second lieutenant balled up a movement. Being "senior in command" I was responsible. This morning I misunderstood an order and made my company march an extra twenty yards, for which I was jumped in an appropriate fashion. Excuses are taboo, of course. No one ever thinks of explaining why he did anything wrong. The strictness of the instructors, especially our company instructor,
 
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