War letters of Edmond Genet, the first American aviator killed flying the stars and stripes . o be in the papers of theStates—the Herald I should think anyway—one ofthese present days, and if so I only hope you see itand recognize your youngest. Hes sitting downin front between two others. The rest are standingbehind. Directly back of me was Chapman, theson of the gentleman who treated us so finely andhad the picture taken. I am not quite sure whereLydon was standing but believe he is the third fromthe left. The boy sitting on my left side is WilliamDugan from Rochester, N. Y. The one on theri
War letters of Edmond Genet, the first American aviator killed flying the stars and stripes . o be in the papers of theStates—the Herald I should think anyway—one ofthese present days, and if so I only hope you see itand recognize your youngest. Hes sitting downin front between two others. The rest are standingbehind. Directly back of me was Chapman, theson of the gentleman who treated us so finely andhad the picture taken. I am not quite sure whereLydon was standing but believe he is the third fromthe left. The boy sitting on my left side is WilliamDugan from Rochester, N. Y. The one on theright is a jolly colored fellow. I am not sure whatpart of the States he hails from. The colored fel-low standing toward the centre of the back rowwas the life of the party. I trust the photo, reachesyou all right. The 3 on our coats stands for 3rd demarche. I had on a red cap—the rest gray, whichis really what is worn now, but thus far I haventbeen given one. If you notice the shoes we wearyou will see they are pretty large and not veryshapely but they are what are worn by the French. EDMOND GENET 85 troops and really are fine for marching—especiallyin the mud of this country which is very are hob-nailed and therefore rather tiresomefor walking on pavements and streets as we foundin Paris. I can still wear a 53^ shoe though for Itried the pair I have in the suitcase in Paris. My dear Rod., My ear is O. K. now I am glad to be able to was the matter with it is all over. Icant imagine what made it so deafened for such along time. Just after I joined the 2nd de marche I lookedaround for two of my old friends who were with meat La Valbonne. I found that they had both beenkilled in an attack at Arras on June 16th. One wasa young fellow from near Buffalo, Hall by name, andthe other an older man—a Greek, naturalized forsome years as an American and a fine man had left $250 a month salary in the States (arailroad engineer or something like that
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