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you I rubbed shoulders with the French 29th [[dursim?]] General. I do not know his name but with his broken English and my [[strikethrough]] [[?]][[/strikethrough]] ear I pieced together the forts that he had been in it the four years in  all the that he went right in and had his men to the extent of his saying that the best thing that ever happened was when one of his men plucked at his coat and reclaimed "Mon General, it is not safe among these bullets here for you." He gave personal anecdotes of the hardships his men put up with. After the Germans began to