Item 11: Oliver L. S. Holt diary, 13 August-28 October 1918 - Page 114

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[Page 114]

reasonably be expected of me. Perhaps more – yet hardly that, for a man's duty is to his ideals, and Army classifications should not so sway turn a man away from what he knows he can do. The hardest part of having ideals is the living up to them when only you & God know what you are doing & why. It is so easy to accept the world's verdict. How often has some sincere & struggling soul been tortured with the worldly advice. "You've done your bit; so why worry."

Fritz shelled the ridge at the back of us last night, & round about here during the night. The weather was far too dull for aeroplane work, thank goodness.

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