Show FROM A BRIGHAM SOLDIER camp kearney january 17 1918 dear father I 1 suppose mother has about got home by this time she did not want to leave here very bad she asked TOO me it if I 1 thought you would move down s here I 1 dont like it myself but if 1 had plenty of money and could be free to go and come came as I 1 pleased I 1 suppose it would be much different mother knows more about this country than I 1 do I 1 was only in there twice before she came she had a good visit and I 1 think you should have taken the trip with her there are a lot lort of things out here worth seeing I 1 hope I 1 can come here some time when I 1 am not tied down as 1 I am now naw we are having nice sunshine er here every day it was cold for a lay day or two but its all cleared up and is just like summer I 1 had put my winter clothes on and when it warmed up again I 1 had to put on my summer ones again or roast we have our big guns now they are surely some size the guns weigh over seven tons we are also getting drilled with the gas masks its a tunny funny looking thing it fits fita close up to the face and a clamp clamps on to your nose so you ym cant breathe through it there Is a mouthpiece that fits between the lips and the teeth with two little rubber businesses that you hold in your teeth from this mouthpiece a rubber tube runs down into a sack which contains a solution through which the air has to be sucked this solution caus esthe gas to be neutralized and mak esthe air fit for breathing if you use the solution too long it becomes neutralized itself and has no effect on the gas there is a little aagon tagon tag on which you write the number of hours the mask hasteen has been used so BO it can be refilled when necessary love to coall all from I 1 I 1 RUEL nuel ESKELSEN |