Word: somes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Spent Some Months at Quantico.
"Perhaps a few words about myself will get me 'oriented,' and give me a bit of framework to build upon. I got my commission in the United States Marines without any trouble, thanks to yours and other letters, and a long lanky frame. Darrah Kelly was under-weight, and no...
"Once on land we hustled to a camp and got shore down. Then we began the work which a vanguard must always do in preparation for that which is to follow. Of course, some of the work didn't have much to do with the rifle and bullet, or the...
"So we're passing the 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...
The number of men who have reported for the preliminary practice has been satisfactory, although daily attendance has been dropping during the past week. In all, 50 runners and field event men have reported to Coaches Donovan and Farrell at some time during the three weeks of practice just passed...