Brent writes that he has made a revised edition of the poem he enclosed in his previous letter and that it is getting some attention on the front. A press representative wants it, but he thinks that James should present it at home after getting copyright. He has been up along the American front and wishes that he could describe it better. He went down in the valley of the Meuse and to the old battlefields of the Marne and Verdun. The countryside is beautiful but littered with graves. Every town shows the violence it has endured. Trenches along the river are filled with barbed wire and overgrown. He thinks they should have been there for it, and that peace is only the reward for the grand struggle and peace is shameful if not won through honorable battle.
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