. "And they thought we wouldn't fight." . THE NEWS FROM THE STATES. SMILING WOUNDED AMERICAN SOLDIERS I WE WOULDNT FIGHT 347 cigarette would be plucked out. That was the way BigBoy got his smokes. If Big Boys voice was gruff, there was still a gruffervoice that used to come from a man in the corner ofthe ward to the left of my bed. During the first fouror five days I was an inmate of the ward, I was mostinterested m all the voices I heard because I lay in totaldarkness. The bandages extended down from the top ofmy head to my upper lip, and I did not know whether ornot I ever would see again. I
. "And they thought we wouldn't fight." . THE NEWS FROM THE STATES. SMILING WOUNDED AMERICAN SOLDIERS I WE WOULDNT FIGHT 347 cigarette would be plucked out. That was the way BigBoy got his smokes. If Big Boys voice was gruff, there was still a gruffervoice that used to come from a man in the corner ofthe ward to the left of my bed. During the first fouror five days I was an inmate of the ward, I was mostinterested m all the voices I heard because I lay in totaldarkness. The bandages extended down from the top ofmy head to my upper lip, and I did not know whether ornot I ever would see again. I would listen carefully toall remarks within ear-shot, whether they be from doc-tors, nurses or patients. I listened in the hope that fromthem I might learn whether or not there was a possibilityof my regaining vision. But all of their remarks withregard to my condition were ambiguous and unsatisfac-tory. But from this I gained a listening habit and thatwas how I became particularly interested in the verygruff voice that came from the corner on my left. Other pat
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