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boat as a Second Lieutenant, having a stateroom with a bath, and food at the same table as army and navy officers of high rank. I return from France a Captain, in the [[underlined]] hold[[/underlined]], with my baggage God knows where -- marked "Stateroom" If [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the baggage]] were available I would have no place to put it.

Now hang it all I don't mind this condition of affairs, as long as we're getting home and can still live, only it's so unnecessary.

[[strikethrough]] But [[/stikethrough]] There are men ^[[up to ]] 50 [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[years]] of age in that mess of the steerage; there are men who have been wounded; there are men who have d[[illegible]]