Show enjoying the work because in good cause dear editor I 1 am writing thanking you for the home paper I 1 have been receiving through your courtesy when ever it comes we dixie boys gather around to read the pews from home which is so precious after g it all shadows vanish from our face the future looka brighter and we are able to go after our here a greater determination I 1 have quite enjoyed my work while I 1 habte been at this camp and I 1 think the rest af the boys hive although we d some unpleasant things but the usually vanishes when ne consider the we are fighting for we feel that we could not depend our time in a more noble cause for the time has come when we must stand squarely upon both feet and defend alie thing we hive from the very beginning oar freedom evera individual oves his country his service in this great conflict the man who shirks this responsibility regardless of whether he is in a school room or on a farm or in some other occupation is like unto the soldier ahn shirks hib duty upon I 1 am paining more knowledge of the apal conditions of the world heie than I 1 could get any other place problems of every nature present themselves elves every dav you can ee revealed in several forms the state it has been collected t gether here and organized organised sed into a fighting army evera mans phil of life 11 tested it it is aund he i ill be able to meet the approach ing storm and come out victorious if not he will be engulfed in its wreckage the thing tho world berds nerds most la strong dorala and a sound phil of life this is one thing we bivs from home buah to thank our parents for their teachings and gods have saved in in the hour of trial wo expect soon to be in france the rest of our division arc there and our picked loaded so if I 1 were to judge from the nay the wind is blow ing I 1 should ay iy that by the limp this lett i home we will bo up in of the atlantic but we with the highest of spirits aroy H co battery r F A camp merritt now jeray |