Show YANK YAN K IS A HIGHBROW HIGH BROW brol W paris TO fo get ft a good idea of tile hilgh intelligence of the average american soldier one should have a n job of censoring letters said an Anic american elcan officer wilo who had just been released from a front hospital where both privates and officers were cared for while recovering from my wound he continued 1 I used to pass away the time acting as temporary censor for the wounded and also for part of the hospital personnel and the letters that those chaps wrote were wonderful especially the batters to their mothers they were diplomatic all most of the letters the wounded wrote would start off with some commonplace comment on the weather or the war and then the writer would casually mention that he had been wounded but the next sentence in rubly d be something like this v 9 on tv worry a bit mother about inc E r g nii its i only hospital food everyone treats me great the nurses and the doctors are one fine and ill be out in a jiffy another thing that struck me about those letters was that almost nil all of them were correct grammatically several times the writers would speak of books they were reading ill confess I 1 have never read sue lucli deep matters as they were taking up and patriotism had bad its part in every letter always a line about the war ending with the americans on top they were till all going to berlin and going as conquerors too those chaps |