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Show Longs for Home. Here at La Capelle we arc fairly comfortable. com-fortable. We still have to build our own fires, though they supply the wood; but our stove smokes horribly, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing my continual sooty operations on Its chimney, However, we have win-j win-j (lows, doors and cleanliness, which were ! unknown quantities on the Hindenburg line. There are only four of us in this house. Oh, I do want to go back to you now! ! One has such a fearful let -down after all the horrors of this war, and begins to long for a hot bath In a tub. a warm room, a real hed. bedrooms that don't look like ammunition scrap dumps, fresh clothes, coats and shoes not cak-d with mud. chairs with backs for round-shouldered people, fireplaces to warm on's hands and toes, motor cars with sHf-starters, sHf-starters, candy oh. plenty of that! cake and delicious desserts. nntlnned milk; above all, to hear the voices of ones beloved! Though I never missed any but the last during the whole six months, yet. somehow, such a miracle of incongruity is the human mind, that we can be and still arc happy, despite our longings. The army we have been with from the first the Third army will replace our present one. and we are to o with them into Germany. We shall be moving on in a couple of days. What tremendous tremen-dous luck for our ' unit to be hi at the finish! To enter with a victorious Krmy fn'.o a defeated country, that has kept ihpin at war for four years oh, the perfection of it! |