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Conger Reynolds correspondence, July 1918
1918-07-30 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5
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fellow does or is permitted to do has to be regulated accordingly to the interests of the mass. It's the only way, of course, but - hard on the individual. I look upon these days as time to be endured as patiently as possible and passed with thankfulness for every one that is gone looking toward the time when our activities will be of more consequence in bringing the end of this bloody business. When we can again have much and hard work to do it will be easier to wait for the victory and peace that will give us back our homes and our sweethearts and the normal life that this sort of thing makes doubly dear. I seem so hopeleisly detached from everybody and everything at home. The news that we get is at best pitifully scant. We can't feel that we really know much about what our families and friends are doing. And we can't take part in any of their affairs in any event. It's like being on a desert island - almost. Of course from the point of view of our friends back there we are in the enviable position of being where the world's greatest events are taking place. But that is a distinction of relative value. Our part is more important than that of many. We are nearer the real scene of action and closer to a big survey of the whole thing than many but still not so close to the real action with all its thrills and its soul-tempering experiences as many others. However, no matter how trying the present waiting may be, I am obliged to admit to myself that I am where I ought to be. Somebody has
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fellow does or is permitted to do has to be regulated accordingly to the interests of the mass. It's the only way, of course, but - hard on the individual. I look upon these days as time to be endured as patiently as possible and passed with thankfulness for every one that is gone looking toward the time when our activities will be of more consequence in bringing the end of this bloody business. When we can again have much and hard work to do it will be easier to wait for the victory and peace that will give us back our homes and our sweethearts and the normal life that this sort of thing makes doubly dear. I seem so hopeleisly detached from everybody and everything at home. The news that we get is at best pitifully scant. We can't feel that we really know much about what our families and friends are doing. And we can't take part in any of their affairs in any event. It's like being on a desert island - almost. Of course from the point of view of our friends back there we are in the enviable position of being where the world's greatest events are taking place. But that is a distinction of relative value. Our part is more important than that of many. We are nearer the real scene of action and closer to a big survey of the whole thing than many but still not so close to the real action with all its thrills and its soul-tempering experiences as many others. However, no matter how trying the present waiting may be, I am obliged to admit to myself that I am where I ought to be. Somebody has
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