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straight that I come from Newton Mass." And at that I stared because I thought he hailed from Brookline, Mass. Anway he is ^[[mostly]] becomingly modest as most aviators ought to be at all times.

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Do you know, the more I think of it the more I come to realize that we [[underline]] are [[/underline]] playing a bold game, at that? I'm beginning to get the point of the view of the outsider and to realize that to him we take all manner of risks and undergo the most intense sort of nervous strain. Granted. We do. But I [[strikethrough]]'d[[/strikethrough]] never thought any more about fighting in an aeroplane than I did about driving an automobile at home when I first got into the game. Since then I've miraculously escaped injury and only partly washed out one of Uncle Sam's machines; I've since seen many of my mates go to the