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is wretched because he was having orders to go home typed when the word came in that he was killed. And also - his fiancee, preceding him home now, was stationed at Camp Hospital #6, the very hospital just beyond this Colombey camp where the carboned body was brought from [[Uruffles?]], where the accident occurred.
I didn't know that the burial was to be immediate and Captain Hachett, Lt. [[Frerson?]] and I went to Nancy for shopping and [[tryons?]].
Charlie Baker and I took a walk after dinner. We were rather depressed with the days' happening. Especially on my part. This morning after breakfast Tabler and Russell, Hall and I were arguing, with chairs pushed back, and