Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 20: April, 1936 Don't run away now, I haven't gone to war yet, I've just gone to Plattsburg. Plattsburg Barracks was a small infantry post on the shores of Lake Champlain, in northern New York. The place is surrounded by lofty mountains, cold and desolate. There was still snow. On the hills when the camp was opened. They issued us cotton uniforms, because in Washington, where the wheels go round, it was hot, and so it was going to be hot in northern New York, by golly, ...
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Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 20: April, 1936 Don't run away now, I haven't gone to war yet, I've just gone to Plattsburg. Plattsburg Barracks was a small infantry post on the shores of Lake Champlain, in northern New York. The place is surrounded by lofty mountains, cold and desolate. There was still snow. On the hills when the camp was opened. They issued us cotton uniforms, because in Washington, where the wheels go round, it was hot, and so it was going to be hot in northern New York, by golly, whatever the temperature was. -well, the temperature was around freezing, so you can see what fun the officer candidates had right ofl the bat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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