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Conger Reynolds correspondence, April 1918
1918-04-29 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 6
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the first instance of the honoring of an American force by a European power. You can judge something of its appeal when I tell you that the war-hardened correspondents - who have seen many similar spectacles in other armies - some of them - wept as they looked on. And one young chap who had fought through three days of bullets and shells and gas and other forms of Hun frightfulness fainted as the French general pinned the cross on his breast. I haven't any delusions about the "glory of war." It's hellish business. But I understand better every day how necessary it is that the part of the world which hates war must fight on with all the strength it can summon against the madness that has possessed another part of the world and enabled it to threaten humanity with the
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the first instance of the honoring of an American force by a European power. You can judge something of its appeal when I tell you that the war-hardened correspondents - who have seen many similar spectacles in other armies - some of them - wept as they looked on. And one young chap who had fought through three days of bullets and shells and gas and other forms of Hun frightfulness fainted as the French general pinned the cross on his breast. I haven't any delusions about the "glory of war." It's hellish business. But I understand better every day how necessary it is that the part of the world which hates war must fight on with all the strength it can summon against the madness that has possessed another part of the world and enabled it to threaten humanity with the
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