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IX THE COURT OF INQUIRY
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Like many other brazen1 Americans I felt throughout the war that in spite of the loss of my friends all about me, and the precautions repeatedly urged, that I was the one bird, who, alone, was exempt2 from mishap3 and misfortune. Undoubtedly4 the good fortune that always attended me caused me to adopt the viewpoint that my good luck was perpetual. Well, as a matter of fact, I still think that way to-day.
Such a thing as my ever becoming a prisoner of war in Germany was absolutely foreign to me. It had not even interested me, so, I had paid very little attention to the reports on the treatment of prisoners and I honestly did not know whether the prisoners were slowly starved to death or killed for some act which they had or had not individually committed, or what not. It was terrible at best. At any rate, I was convinced that it was bad enough that one could well afford to be desperate in taking chances to escape. So, when I finally, in spite of my confidence in my continued good luck, was taken prisoner on September 30, 1918, I immediately decided7 that I would escape no matter what the cost.
193Upon being captured Davis and I were first marched down to a nearby airdrome—the den6 of our captors. There they dragged out a German automobile8, which had steel, spring wheels. A very young and fat German boy, who, by the way, was an officer, climbed in first and told us to follow. Of course, we did; and soon we were off for somewhere. This youngster was a genuine pighead—he tried to be a Hun but did not know how and reminded me very much of a newly made Second Lieutenant9. Like all other German officers he had the Iron Cross, which he wore complete and as he spoke10 a little English, I decided that the wisest move for me, was to find out just how much.
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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     brazen 
      
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     bunks 
      
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     enlisted 
      
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     graveyard 
      
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     interfered 
      
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     browbeat 
      
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     advantageous 
      
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| 限量供应,配给供应( ration的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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     massage 
      
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     groomed 
      
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     rigidly 
      
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     salute 
      
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     kinsmen 
      
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     fishy 
      
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     interned 
      
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     detention 
      
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     traitor 
      
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     traitors 
      
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     affected 
      
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     balked 
      
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     diminutive 
      
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     persuasion 
      
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     aviator 
      
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     controversy 
      
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     pointed 
      
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