War Diaries (May 18) (nonfiction)
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George S. Patton: May 18, 1917
I had been riding at Mr. Rice's Topefield Mass and on returning to Pride's found a wire from the Adjutant General directing me to procede to Washington at once and report to General Pershing.
Telephoned papa at Washington me could say nothing definite over the phone but told me to come at once and to bring Beatrice. We caught the twelve thirty driving up with Kay & Keith in our new machine.
—George S. Patton (war diary)
Lawrence M. Salleck: May 18, 1917
... The class of men is remarkable. Many from Cornell, the Yale batteries & from many other colleges … We are studying down here all of the time. It's just as much a college as was Cornell. The instructors are just as capable … But the thought hit me all of a sudden one day – what are we studying? And the only answer I could find was – the most scientific method of killing our fellow human beings ...
—Lawrence M. Salleck, Co. 11, R.O.T.C., Madison Barracks (letter to parents)
Henry Dube: May 18, 1918
I am lucky to say that I have been in the trenches twice or in other words have done two hitches in Hell as we call it and sometimes we think seriously and wonder if the latter place is any worse than some of the days we have spent.
—Sergeant Henry Dube (diary)