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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 16-31, 1918

1918-03-20 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 7

acquainted with your uncles and aunts will be lots of fun, and perhaps they'll like the idea of hearing from a new nephew at the front.  That's really where I am, you know.  I'm not sitting in an easy chair back of the line of communications.  I'm up in the zone where the boys win stripes for service at the front, and if I stay here five months more I'll be entitled to wear one.  Lest this sound too braggadacio, though, I must admit that I spend most of my time so far back on the front that even the 42 centimeters can't get me.  All the explosives I have to worry about are airmen's bombs, which don't fall here as they do in Paris - as often as the April showers (recently).
Congratulations on this musical sketch I hear about!  I wish I could slip in the night you give it and "listen in."  I know it's

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acquainted with your uncles and aunts will be lots of fun, and perhaps they'll like the idea of hearing from a new nephew at the front. That's really where I am, you know. I'm not sitting in an easy chair back of the line of communications. I'm up in the zone where the boys win stripes for service at the front, and if I stay here five months more I'll be entitled to wear one. Lest this sound too braggadacio, though, I must admit that I spend most of my time so far back on the front that even the 42 centimeters can't get me. All the explosives I have to worry about are airmen's bombs, which don't fall here as they do in Paris - as often as the April showers (recently). Congratulations on this musical sketch I hear about! I wish I could slip in the night you give it and "listen in." I know it's