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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXII
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There's a family that lives around the corner from this hotel.

One son is in the trenches, another is in a madhouse from shell-shock, a third coming home wounded the other day was barely rescued when a torpedo sunk a hospital ship and may lose his reason.

I suppose I saw one hundred men this afternoon on a single mile of beach who had lost both legs.

Through the wall from my house in London is a hospital.

A young Texan has been there, whose legs are gone at the thighs and one arm at the elbow.


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