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Conger Reynolds correspondence, August 1918
1918-08-05 Conger Reynolds to Emily Reynolds Page 5
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good headway toward victory ourselves. If the next six months better our prospects in the same degree they will just about bring victorious peace itself. These last few days have been glorious in the successes they have brought to the allies. Last week American troops, in which were the fellows I went to see late in May, met and defeated the Kaiser's best Prussian Guards. The result was the precipitate retreat of Friday in which the boches gave up more of their gains in one day than they had since the great retreat to the Hindenburg line in 1917. They are trying to form a line but still they are being forced back, which argues well for the success of the allies when there are enough Americans here to give us numerical superiority. With me all is well. I am busier now than I have been for a long time before but still not overworked. Sometimes I find this kind of service very tiresome in its monotony and then again it is very fascinating. Always I long for my dearest and my home folks. But I have come through six months of it somehow and I suppose I'll make it to the end of the war. Then I'll begin to live again. Now I shall begin to look for another letter from you. With much love, Conger
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good headway toward victory ourselves. If the next six months better our prospects in the same degree they will just about bring victorious peace itself. These last few days have been glorious in the successes they have brought to the allies. Last week American troops, in which were the fellows I went to see late in May, met and defeated the Kaiser's best Prussian Guards. The result was the precipitate retreat of Friday in which the boches gave up more of their gains in one day than they had since the great retreat to the Hindenburg line in 1917. They are trying to form a line but still they are being forced back, which argues well for the success of the allies when there are enough Americans here to give us numerical superiority. With me all is well. I am busier now than I have been for a long time before but still not overworked. Sometimes I find this kind of service very tiresome in its monotony and then again it is very fascinating. Always I long for my dearest and my home folks. But I have come through six months of it somehow and I suppose I'll make it to the end of the war. Then I'll begin to live again. Now I shall begin to look for another letter from you. With much love, Conger
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