Like many other young Americans there was instilled in me from early childhood a feeling of resentment against our democratic cousins across the Atlantic and I was only too ready to accept as true those stories I heard of England shirking her duty and hiding behind her colonies, etc.
It was not until I came over here and saw what she was really doing that my opinion began to change.
"When first my division arrived in France it was brigaded with and received its initial experience with the British, who proved to us how little we really knew of the war as it was and that we had yet much to learn.

Soon my opinion began to change and I was regarding England as the backbone of the Allies.

Yet there remained a certain something I could not forgive them.

What it was you know, and have proved to me that it is not our place to judge and that we have much for which to be thankful to our great Ally.
"Assuring you that your...

article has succeeded in converting one who needed conversion badly I beg to remain...." How many American soldiers in Europe, I wonder, have looked about them, have used their sensible independent American brains (our very best characteristic), have left school histories and hearsay behind them and judged the English for themselves?
A good many, it is to be hoped.