War letters of Edmond Genet, the first American aviator killed flying the stars and stripes . hting in the For-eign Legion, are paying the actual debt, man forman, incurred in the Revolution. Our contribu-tions to hospital service must also be counted as insome sense a reimbursement for the investmentmade so long ago by France in American good-will. A friend of Dave who knows of me through himsent him that article and he sent it to me. I hopeyou or Rivers or any of my relations or friends failedto see it in the paper or the article which came outthe following day which Dave tells me
War letters of Edmond Genet, the first American aviator killed flying the stars and stripes . hting in the For-eign Legion, are paying the actual debt, man forman, incurred in the Revolution. Our contribu-tions to hospital service must also be counted as insome sense a reimbursement for the investmentmade so long ago by France in American good-will. A friend of Dave who knows of me through himsent him that article and he sent it to me. I hopeyou or Rivers or any of my relations or friends failedto see it in the paper or the article which came outthe following day which Dave tells me one I wrote above puts me down as beingkilled. The other one, printed the following day,Dave writes, had all the Americans killed but had it that I, in the attack we made, when allthe rest were slain, hid in a hole made by a burstedshell until the Tirailleurs (the Arab troops) I up and charged with them killing, as Davesays they put in the article, about 10,000 sure enjoy charging, with bayonet fixed, theblamed reporters who fixed up those articles out of. Citizen Minister from the French Republic to the United States in 1793. EDMOND GENET 103 their senseless craniums. They deserve the extremepleasure of taking part in one of those attacks. Pos-sibly their minds would be more calm and sedatethereafter. I can well imagine your feelings if you read suchan article as that first (as this mornings despatchesindicate, etc., and my name right out—the only onementioned in the article—as being one of those re-ported killed). Curse all newspaper reporters ! Were in repose now and have been ever sincethe middle of last week. Im pretty well restednow and am mighty anxious to get that 6-day leaveto Paris. Six days vacation there would put me infine shape and feelings I know, but its very doubt-ful if such is obtainable. Joseph Lydon, the young fellow from Mass. ofwhom I spoke in one of my last letters as havingbeen wounded, is out of the war
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