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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-29 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 7
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ended to see it without hindrance. Tomorrow is Decoration Day and we who are sound and well will pause a bit from our usual pursuits to lay flowers on the graves of the brave fellows who have already "poured out the red sweet wine of youth," - as Alan Seeger beautifully said it - for the cause to which we are devoted. I have known Decoration Day as a day of reverence for the memory of my father's comrades but tomorrow it will become a day for tribute to my own. Up where the guns thump all day, not many miles from me lie men whom I count as acquaintances. Since the
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ended to see it without hindrance. Tomorrow is Decoration Day and we who are sound and well will pause a bit from our usual pursuits to lay flowers on the graves of the brave fellows who have already "poured out the red sweet wine of youth," - as Alan Seeger beautifully said it - for the cause to which we are devoted. I have known Decoration Day as a day of reverence for the memory of my father's comrades but tomorrow it will become a day for tribute to my own. Up where the guns thump all day, not many miles from me lie men whom I count as acquaintances. Since the
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