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Conger Reynolds correspondence, January 1918

1918-01-12 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

I should face as a line officer, although of course I shall not shrink from danger if my duty takes me into it. 
Your part will not be easy, but you are brave. I know you feel as our mother does. She points the way beautifully and nobly. "I want you to do what is best for yourself and our country," she says in her letter. "Wherever they can use you best is the place for you to be... Wherever you are our prayers will rise to the Good God to protect and care for you and to give you strength to do your duty at all times." Our other mother is like that too. From the day she knew I was to go to training camp to this she has allowed me to know from her nothing but quiet encouragement to do my duty. And father, with the memory of his two years' service of country when a mere boy, service that spoiled his chance of education and other privileges in life, is as

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I should face as a line officer, although of course I shall not shrink from danger if my duty takes me into it. Your part will not be easy, but you are brave. I know you feel as our mother does. She points the way beautifully and nobly. "I want you to do what is best for yourself and our country," she says in her letter. "Wherever they can use you best is the place for you to be... Wherever you are our prayers will rise to the Good God to protect and care for you and to give you strength to do your duty at all times." Our other mother is like that too. From the day she knew I was to go to training camp to this she has allowed me to know from her nothing but quiet encouragement to do my duty. And father, with the memory of his two years' service of country when a mere boy, service that spoiled his chance of education and other privileges in life, is as