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cause myself too much retrospective feeling about all the entertainments the good people I met provided; I'll have to [[underline]] tell [[/underline]] about the instruction work at the S.M.A.#4 (Military Aeronautics school); I'll omit the details of quitting the North and making the monotonous 1562 mile journey to Texas, through flat uninteresting corn country of the middle states, to Texas. I'll leave it all out for I'm too busy with the present and all [[underline]] its  [[/underline]] details.

When our Pullman cars drew up at this siding at Hicks yesterday, after, being in them for 3 nights, ^[[(Extra night in car!)]] I was depressed and not at all in love with the country I'd heard so much about. Flat, drab, uninteresting, with nothing to see but a far distant horizon and a near by camp for aviation