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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Company C.--Captain, F. C. Fishback; 1st Sergeant, D. G. Foster; Supply Sergeant, D. Worrall; 1st Lieutenant, R. Peet; 2nd Lieutenant, J. F. Hardaway; Sergeants, L. Hall, J. Gaston, C. F. Anderson, J. F. Havemeyer, M. Heard; Corporals, R. Gerould, J. C. Ryan, R. Jenney, D. W. Flynn, W. H. Goodwin, P. D. Steele, H. Henderson, W. S. Holbrook, J. C. S. Fleming, A. R. Nelson...
...time training and hardening up, occasionally getting actual experience where 'make-believe' no longer holds. I personally am to be the aerial observer of an infantry contact machine, a duty that to me is as interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed...
...have heard, I got in the way of a bit of shell last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...
...sort of dream to wonder what would happen if great men of former times came back to look on the present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro...
...course we have heard more about the British sub-commanders, but until this latest drive upon Cambrai, mention of General Byng had been quite casual. He is now on the way to hero worship and we shall presently be deluged with details as to what he eats, how he behaved in school and who his favorite authors...