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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-02 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6
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ceive better pay than they would get in their own army. We talked to a guard who expressed frank admiration of them both as soldiers and as workmen. Of course, these were selected men of the artisan class. The unskilled men are elsewhere and might not be so prepossessing. Soldiers over here do not underrate the German. You don't hear any of the foolish talk about them that the "million men over night" patriots back home spread. It is an odd thing, indeed, that I am in a camp that I particularly remember from my experiences of 1916. As I was leaving France I passed it. Looking up from the train I saw some soldiers silhouetted against the late afternoon sky. The sight set me imagining what their experiences and feelings must be. Yesterday afternoon
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ceive better pay than they would get in their own army. We talked to a guard who expressed frank admiration of them both as soldiers and as workmen. Of course, these were selected men of the artisan class. The unskilled men are elsewhere and might not be so prepossessing. Soldiers over here do not underrate the German. You don't hear any of the foolish talk about them that the "million men over night" patriots back home spread. It is an odd thing, indeed, that I am in a camp that I particularly remember from my experiences of 1916. As I was leaving France I passed it. Looking up from the train I saw some soldiers silhouetted against the late afternoon sky. The sight set me imagining what their experiences and feelings must be. Yesterday afternoon
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