New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records (1919)
Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 278
willing to give all to end as permanently as possible;for it is nt the men that war kills, it is the mothers heart which it de-stroys, that makes it hateful to me. In another letter he wrote: Even if I dont come back, it is all right, Mother, for you know we canthope to gain such wonderful ends… … BRIGGS KILBURN ADAMS near St.-Omer, France. Death is the greatest event in life, hewrote in one of his eloquent letters to his mother, and it is seldomthat anything is made of it. What a privilege, then, to be able tomeet it in a manner suitable to its greatness. A few of his letters were first…
Biography · Aeronautics · World War, 1914-1918
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