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I am young and healthy.

I note in a post card just received
that you sign yourself croix de
guerre with palms. Which I take
to mean that you have, at last, been
decorated by the French. This is
delightful – and I am proud that
you are my brother – you have shown
the world what I would have done
had I been in your place – the only
difference is that you have the "baby
face" as that French officer at Camp
Kearney said whereas I have a
most unlucky one – hence I should
now have probably been in Davy Jones
locker instead of the hero that you
are. Now for the D. S. C.

The letters which you have written
home regarding your trip thru
Luxembourg are very interesting indeed.
That certainly was a very historical
march and it was a very great honor