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never have the chance to be one again -- The
particularly nice feature of your letter was the
detail -- and that is everything. I hope that
now you have been billeted for awhile -- as you
certainly deserve a rest and a promotion to
Colonel at least for all that good work.

Everyone here -- has been fighting this awful
epedemic [epidemic] of Influenza -- and so many people
are ill with it -- while some have died here.
Mrs. Townsend and Jean are both very ill --
and Leslie Brown is just getting over it -- Poor
Ruth Gith died of it -- also Mort Goggin
and one of the numerous Bruzzones - Dr. A.S.
Kelly - died too and aside from being a terrible
loss to the profession -- he will be greatly missed
by his friends. He was Eleanor and Edgar's
doctor -- and was just splendid.

The Motor Corps which has just recently
been organized is doing very strenuous work --