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Conger Reynolds correspondence, February 1918

1918-02-24 Conger Reynolds to John & Emily Reynolds Page 7

by talking to the French soldiers around us. They were back on leave from the front and told us quite in matter-of-fact way about the action they had seen in three and a half years of war. 
The French around here have become well accustomed to seeing the Americans. They no longer stand and gape and cry "Vive l'Amerique." Most of them, indeed, are too busy taking in the good American money that our soldiers are pouring into their tills to stand around and gape. It is very evident, though, that they have been bucked up tremendously by the coming of the Americans. The presence in many towns of France of the campaign hat has already resulted in a great moral victory in the way it is stimulating the courage of the French and making them willing to speed up the fight in the interim before our troops

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by talking to the French soldiers around us. They were back on leave from the front and told us quite in matter-of-fact way about the action they had seen in three and a half years of war. The French around here have become well accustomed to seeing the Americans. They no longer stand and gape and cry "Vive l'Amerique." Most of them, indeed, are too busy taking in the good American money that our soldiers are pouring into their tills to stand around and gape. It is very evident, though, that they have been bucked up tremendously by the coming of the Americans. The presence in many towns of France of the campaign hat has already resulted in a great moral victory in the way it is stimulating the courage of the French and making them willing to speed up the fight in the interim before our troops