Captain/Major Harold Ward Correspondence, item 147

• December 11, 2018 15:12:27 Thomas A. Lingner

  & my desires come to you at all times

  my Own.

    War is a fine game & may be
  

  the sport of kings, but its glory has

  departed under modern conditions. Shells 

  & big guns deal out death & destruction

  but it is only by the pluck & determination 

  of the infantry soldier that battles &

  ground are finally won. Money & materials

  are necessary to smash up the enemy

  materials but that is only the start

  - engineering & mechanical effort engaged

  in systematic destruction. The infantry

  sit in front & wait - they protect the guns

  & keep the enemy on the jump as much

  as possible. The guns finished wave

  after wave of men surge into the

  Boche defences - a slow solid advance;

  then the final madding rush followed

  by hours of feverish toil to make

  defences that the enemy infantry

  cannot penetrate. Then the same old

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