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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-19 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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but our business took all the time. However, if we go there, I'll have plenty of chance to do that later. The last two days have been tense with excitement over the big Franco-American push between the Oise and the Marne. Yesterday, when we were soberly contenting ourselves with the fact that the Germans were making no headway, came the first report that our side had pushed forward and gone Miles through the German line. Wow! but we were happy. Here we are far from the scene of the fighting, and we must follow it by means of telephone and telegraph reports. It seemed like the times when at school we used to get play by play reports of the distant football games - only this was so much more vital. It was is if we had been hearing of our side being slowly forced back into its half of the gridiron and then there had come a report that we had got the ball and broken straight through for a touchdown. Every succeeding report was of more gains. There were rumors of 4,000 prisoners and 30 guns. Then the prisoners became 10,000, and then 15,000. Today the reports have been fewer and less definite, but they speak of further gains. Our bulletin board causes shouts of delight in the groups of officers who gather before it from time to time. Everybody is happy. Whatever the actual facts are, it is certain the allies have hit the boche a heavy blow, and American troops have had a big share in
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but our business took all the time. However, if we go there, I'll have plenty of chance to do that later. The last two days have been tense with excitement over the big Franco-American push between the Oise and the Marne. Yesterday, when we were soberly contenting ourselves with the fact that the Germans were making no headway, came the first report that our side had pushed forward and gone Miles through the German line. Wow! but we were happy. Here we are far from the scene of the fighting, and we must follow it by means of telephone and telegraph reports. It seemed like the times when at school we used to get play by play reports of the distant football games - only this was so much more vital. It was is if we had been hearing of our side being slowly forced back into its half of the gridiron and then there had come a report that we had got the ball and broken straight through for a touchdown. Every succeeding report was of more gains. There were rumors of 4,000 prisoners and 30 guns. Then the prisoners became 10,000, and then 15,000. Today the reports have been fewer and less definite, but they speak of further gains. Our bulletin board causes shouts of delight in the groups of officers who gather before it from time to time. Everybody is happy. Whatever the actual facts are, it is certain the allies have hit the boche a heavy blow, and American troops have had a big share in
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