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there are not many dangers ahead – especially now the great Hun offensive is on and air fighting is sure to be heavy – but with God's good help I will come through all right as I have so far. I got the St Joseph's Cord and the Medal of St Benedict that Mrs Will Gilhooley sent me and I wear them always. It is awfully kind of her to think of me & I appreciate it ever so much. Please thank her for me & tell her I always wear them – I will write to her as soon as I get a chance.

As you will see by the papers the much advertised Hun offensive has started with a wild attempt to smash us at all costs. It is absolutely the most gigantic attack war has ever known and I cannot see how things can go on much when it ends. The next six months are going to be the most awful in our history and we are now at the crisis of the war. Undoubtedly they have driven us back at awful costs – a cost that none but the Hun would pay – but I am not afraid of the result. We may lose ground, even a lot of ground hard worn at great cost by us, but I do not believe that he will break through. And if the whole might of Germany hurled against the hated British does not break through, it is undoubtedly the end, for it [is] his last frantic effort for victory and the failure of

 

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