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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-21 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 2
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would be horrified. They never have been able to overcome the feeling that cardplaying is a device of the devil. They don't know what a bore cards are ordinarily. The devil wouldn't own anything that can be so desperately tiresome as most card games are. Howard Beye came in town from the hospital yesterday and stayed for lunch with me. He was just back from a month and a half as battalion surgeon with troops in the front line. During all of June he was in the line northwest of Chateau-Thierry. I found that I had several times been near him. If I had known he was up there I might have visited his dugout. He had a thrilling month because that sector was one of the hottest on the front at all times. Hundreds of wounded passed through his first aid post and got their first treatment from him. Finally on June 5 he got a burn from mustard gas and had to be evacuated to a base hospital. After two weeks there he was all right and was sent back to the base hospital staff from which he was only loaned. He has been recommended for a Croix de Guerre, though for what I couldn't find out from him. You'd think a month of that hell of high explosive and gas would be enough for anyone but he is "homesick" for his battalion and wishes
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would be horrified. They never have been able to overcome the feeling that cardplaying is a device of the devil. They don't know what a bore cards are ordinarily. The devil wouldn't own anything that can be so desperately tiresome as most card games are. Howard Beye came in town from the hospital yesterday and stayed for lunch with me. He was just back from a month and a half as battalion surgeon with troops in the front line. During all of June he was in the line northwest of Chateau-Thierry. I found that I had several times been near him. If I had known he was up there I might have visited his dugout. He had a thrilling month because that sector was one of the hottest on the front at all times. Hundreds of wounded passed through his first aid post and got their first treatment from him. Finally on June 5 he got a burn from mustard gas and had to be evacuated to a base hospital. After two weeks there he was all right and was sent back to the base hospital staff from which he was only loaned. He has been recommended for a Croix de Guerre, though for what I couldn't find out from him. You'd think a month of that hell of high explosive and gas would be enough for anyone but he is "homesick" for his battalion and wishes
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