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...just sure when I wrote you last, but I've a sort of an idea it was about two weeks ago, while in the hospital, so--going on that supposition--I'll carry...
...sights which one must witness over here, I think to see the poor, bent, old civilians coming back to their reconquered homes, coming back to pick about among the ruins, gathering up the remnants of their possessions and trying to bring some sort of order out of great chaos, to make some sort of a home out of great devastation, to find, some kind of living in a land destroyed,--working bravely, looking cheerfully at a scene which would cause the stoutest to falter, and then pitching in--that I think is one of the saddest sights...
...compelled to go to a room between the hours of 7.30 and 9.30 and do his work under supervision of a superior officer. As yet the men in the Naval Unit have had no supervised work, but plans are under preparation to give them the same sort of discipline. However, many men in the Naval Unit and the Junior S. A. T. C. have been using the upper reading room of Widener Library for study that 50 more seats will now be put in to accommodate the largest number of students Widener has ever seen
...note my address has changed once more. Another corner has been turned by me and I'm in a strange, unfriendly street again. Of course in time it will become homelike as any habitat of needs must. But now it is a lonesome sort of place. Letters make it livable--and mails are laggards. When I wrote last the examinations of auto-school loomed cruelly ahead--but they were over in a breath, a sweltering breath to be sure, but passable. Arriving back at the Section near the Aisne and overlooking the now retaken S---, I had two days...
...rest here tranquilly "en repos" now--a dawdlins sort of existence. American soldiers are making a wonderful name for the States. The spirit between French and American is wonderful...