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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordinary soldier (doughboy, as he is called) certainly has a hard life even if he escapes being wounded. He sometimes goes two or three days without food and is constantly exposed to the dampness and cold as to shell fragments and machine-gun bullets. They are the most uncomplaining lot, however, and are very happy to be back where they can get a chance to sleep on something...
...Company is living up to the high standards which have been laid down during the past three years and has put in a lot of solid work. During the past five weeks the weather has been such that not a single day of drill has been missed and the men have reached the "school of the company." The drilling is still in close formation...
...boys, Copey, have done remarkably well. I am with the French and I know how the French feel. We have bragged a lot about what we should do, and the best of it is we are going ahead of what we really thought we were able to do. The American is no longer a curiosity on this side. We see hundreds of them every day, and it is wonderful to see the way they are pouring...
...meeting always ends up with the same question: "When will it end?" We do not dare guess, but I think that we have them on the run now, and perhaps it will end before we realize it can now. My best wishes to you, and I would give a lot to be able to go up to Hollis 15 tonight...
...head. So they sent me back along the endless chain of hospitals--this is the 6th--to rest. That is rather a joke, too, the rest part of it, for you no sooner get settled down than you are evacuated. But even so, I've gathered up a lot of sleep and stored it away, and now I'm all ready to go back again--just as soon as they'll let me, which ought to be in a couple of days at the most