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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918
1918-02-24 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 4
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Yesterday I found a new place for diversion. It is the French officers' club. I am in it now, writing while I sip -- nothing but after dinner coffee. I've just been chatting with a major from Des Moines whom I encountered here. We've had a regular celebration of recollections of things back home. This place is less crowded than the Y -- and very interesting. There is a scattering of French officers at the tables, a handsome dashing looking lot in their colorful blue uniforms all plastered with red and gold stripes and decorated with a row of medals. One big old boy is wearing a dark blue coat and scarlet breeches. Hoopee! Our own men look much alike in the uniform olive drab, but they're not less handsome as men -- and there's a certain rough and ready self possession about them that makes one feel that up at the front is where they will be in their element. This mingling of the two uniforms one sees everywhere. It
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Yesterday I found a new place for diversion. It is the French officers' club. I am in it now, writing while I sip -- nothing but after dinner coffee. I've just been chatting with a major from Des Moines whom I encountered here. We've had a regular celebration of recollections of things back home. This place is less crowded than the Y -- and very interesting. There is a scattering of French officers at the tables, a handsome dashing looking lot in their colorful blue uniforms all plastered with red and gold stripes and decorated with a row of medals. One big old boy is wearing a dark blue coat and scarlet breeches. Hoopee! Our own men look much alike in the uniform olive drab, but they're not less handsome as men -- and there's a certain rough and ready self possession about them that makes one feel that up at the front is where they will be in their element. This mingling of the two uniforms one sees everywhere. It
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