Word: retaken
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days of airy breathing, then like a sudden gale came the drive and our retreat. Clothes didn't come off anywaysoever for a full three weeks. The work was never so jumbled before, the throbbing tide of days so over-whelming. Poor, poor refugees--and forever glorious...
...little town of Northern France, recently retaken by the French, there is a cemetery filled with German dead. Above the entrance stands a placard bearing the almost incomprehensible title, "Died for their Kaiser...