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Conger Reynolds newspaper clippings, 1916-1919
Clipping: ""As We Know Them"" Page 2
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declaration of war I have through the U.S.A., going tes, and speaking publicly the issues of the war. in west Texas, a shrewd e up to me one day after d he wished to speak with f great secrecy and confi- were quite alone he gave k out of his shrewd eyes to end this here war right aid I, "the whole world er at long range. I'm the west Texas," said he, "and at a mile with my 30-40 get me that near to the rest. I'm willing to take uld be," said I, "to move 0 up within a mile of n figure that out, too, and l guarantee you a national you the best cattle ranch ellows in the trenches have d can help the old man to I wish you would write to STRIPES. he important towns in New fact firmly and finally fixed in his mind-- our country will see this war through at any sacrifice. You will never go home until victory is ours--complete victory--with our Army, and those of our long suffering and heroic Allies, camping in the streets of Berlin. Just One Thing to Think About During the 25,000 miles I traveled in America I found everywhere the rush and hurry of war preparations--building ships, making munitions, growing crops, making clothes, all for the war--as though there were nothing else in the world to think of but beating Germany flat. When I wound up my trip, and sat down to think it all over, the first conclusion I came to was this: Those folks back home, boys, the common people of America, the farmers, the coal miners, the people that do America's work and are never heard of outside of their own community, are about the finest outfit in the history of the world. When it comes to understanding what they are fighting for and sacrificing for, those relations and neighbors of ours in the little old towns in New England and Virginia, or out on the western prairie, are perfectly sure of themselves. No people in the history of the ages were ever so ready, in mind and soul, for a final test of their full KI To t ST Satu first c and in tured Lord, one go and p nalism I ha a cens headqu numbe sheet public tween incom avoida pleasa read t Fro
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declaration of war I have through the U.S.A., going tes, and speaking publicly the issues of the war. in west Texas, a shrewd e up to me one day after d he wished to speak with f great secrecy and confi- were quite alone he gave k out of his shrewd eyes to end this here war right aid I, "the whole world er at long range. I'm the west Texas," said he, "and at a mile with my 30-40 get me that near to the rest. I'm willing to take uld be," said I, "to move 0 up within a mile of n figure that out, too, and l guarantee you a national you the best cattle ranch ellows in the trenches have d can help the old man to I wish you would write to STRIPES. he important towns in New fact firmly and finally fixed in his mind-- our country will see this war through at any sacrifice. You will never go home until victory is ours--complete victory--with our Army, and those of our long suffering and heroic Allies, camping in the streets of Berlin. Just One Thing to Think About During the 25,000 miles I traveled in America I found everywhere the rush and hurry of war preparations--building ships, making munitions, growing crops, making clothes, all for the war--as though there were nothing else in the world to think of but beating Germany flat. When I wound up my trip, and sat down to think it all over, the first conclusion I came to was this: Those folks back home, boys, the common people of America, the farmers, the coal miners, the people that do America's work and are never heard of outside of their own community, are about the finest outfit in the history of the world. When it comes to understanding what they are fighting for and sacrificing for, those relations and neighbors of ours in the little old towns in New England and Virginia, or out on the western prairie, are perfectly sure of themselves. No people in the history of the ages were ever so ready, in mind and soul, for a final test of their full KI To t ST Satu first c and in tured Lord, one go and p nalism I ha a cens headqu numbe sheet public tween incom avoida pleasa read t Fro
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