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The last two months
there we had a so called
school. The whole thing
was a joke as far as
learning anything was
concerned. I believe
the idea of the school
was not to teach us,
as much as to get our
hundred dollars a month
pay, and to boost the
stock of those in command
of the post.

The above are my
impressions of St. Maxient
before I left for Gondrecourt.

The way things finally
turned out we were not
so bad off, and could
have had a very