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Roberta Writes – Reblog: “The Soldier and the Radium Girl Part 1: The Bloom of Youth, Chapter 1: Enlist in haste, repent at leisure (cont. 6)” by Roberta Eaton Cheadle Jake Tanner 25 September 1917 The previous day, Jake’s platoon had boarded a train heading for an unknown US port. The first men of his battalion to be leaving for “somewhere over there.” Many were… https://roberta-writes.com/2025/11/23/roberta-writes-reblog-the-soldier-and-the-radium-girl-part-1-the-bloom-of-youth-chapter-1-enlist-in-haste-repent-at-leisure-cont-6-by-roberta-eaton-cheadle/