They have always urged that our uniforms, though not smart nor "for show," were for use.

The truth is, as they all admit, that for the tropics they are worse than useless, and that in any climate they are cheap and poor.
I could go on for pages, but it has to be written later; now they would only think it was an attack on the army.

But it is sickening to see men being sacrificed as these men will be.

This is the worst season of all in the Philippines.

The season of typhoons and rainstorms and hurricanes, and they would have sent the men off without anything to sleep on but the wet ground and a wet blanket.