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to sail on the Zeppelin ^[[after two days in camp,]] and within 3 hours we were stumbling through the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] already bored assembly on board. We quit Brest harbor at 7:30 and a few hours later remained on deck to see the last glimmer of the outline of Brittany hills disappear in the East.

I felt no great qualm in quitting France now that all our work in the A.E.F. has come to a happy ending. But I will always love the land. It's people I love and again don't love. As to the former I believe it is [[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the French]] spirit that [[?]]