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Show LETTERS FROM SOLDIER BOYS Alger Renshaw and George W. Hunter Hun-ter Write Interesting Letter Home to ParenU. Somewhere in France, June 26. Dear Father. I will write you a few lines today as I am a little lonesome : and I can't get out and run around any yet. I sure get tired staying in- side all the time, as it has been so long since I was sent to the hospital. I am getting along fine and I hope I to be out soon, and when I do I want to get another chance to go "over the Top" and get even with Bosch for ' what he did to me on the second day of the big battle I was in. Say, Dad, what do the people of j the dear old U. S. A. think of their i boys and what they have done? We I sure did good work on the front where I was. All the boys are in the best ' of spirits and want to get back to the J front. I have been expecting some mail every day for a week, but haven't ! received any yet. I think that would i do me more good than anything e:.e, I if I could only get a letter once in a while. How is everything in Cedar? All ; right, I hope. I guess everybody is i pretty busy on the farms now. I saw Harve Rosenberg a few days before I was hurt, but didn't get to talk to him very long, as I was in a hurry. I used to see Elmer (Jes-I (Jes-I person) pretty often, but have not j seen him or Harve either since the I first of the month. Are you still sending me the Trib- ! une and The Record ? If you are I am not jrwtting them. Only ot one bundle of papers since I have been over here. I will close. Write soon. Give my best wishes to all. As ever, Your son, ALGER RENSHAW. 18th Co. 5th Reg., U. S. M. C. American Expeditionary Force, in France, June 28, 1918. Dear Folks.- I received mother's, most welcome letter the other day ' and was sure glad to hear from you again and to know you were all in good i health, which concerns me very much while here in France. I am well my-elf my-elf and feeling fine. It is just four months today since I left home and you, and landed over- j seas "somewhere in France," doing , what little I can for the freedom of my country. Little did I think though that I would be so far away this soon. I have sure been on the go ever since I left you. I have had some real good times and some that were not so good, but I guess all has to go together. I don't know what I would do though if I felt like a young fellow 1 was talking to the other day, when our mail came in. He said he had never received a letter from anyone since coming over here, nor had he written any. That would surely make a fellow fel-low feel that he was alone in the world, especially over here. I look for letters every day from you and the girls, and if you only knew how glad it makes me feel to get a letter from my loved ones at home you would write me every day. I am in lingers yet, but don't know how long I will stay here. The boyi are going out every day or two; some have gone to the front and some have been moved to other places. Most of the boys who came over with me have gone now. The (iujiiuin boys leave me tomorrow or next day I guess the sooner we all get up there the sooner it will be over with with, though many of the boys that have been up in the front want to go back. Many have been wounded and gassed. I am more afraid of the gai than any thing else. I was talking to a young man the other day who had been in the front. He said that he had his mask on nine hours during the tight. What do you think of that, this hot weather? But guess we can put up with nearly anything when it i (Continued on last page.) LETTERS FROM ! OUR SOLOIER BOYS (Continued from first pajre.) comes to savinjr our lives. I may have to ko lo the front any time and I may ! not; I do not know; but don't worry about me for I am coming home sometime. some-time. I am trying to be a good boy. 1 can live my relrjrion just as well here ns I did at home, and can be just as (rood or even bettor. The boys as a rule are all jrood boys. We are well treated. Why shouldn't we be good? Still, most of us would just as soon bt at home if we were not needed here, as I have told you before. I am sure I would make a better farmer than a soldier. You said father had sent my team out to work on the county road; I wish I were with them, but nothing like that for some time yet. Got a letter from Myles and Alta. Was sure glad to hear from them and to know they had not forgotten me. You said Herbert Haight was giving his "come home" talk. I wish it was . me giving mine, for I have surely had I some experience and could tell you a lot some that I will never forget. It will lie a great thing for those who get back home, but not all of us will ' get back to tell the story. Well, Mother, you said you wished I could step in and have chicken dinner din-ner with you that day. Yes, I wish so too. How I would hunt my favorite favor-ite pieces. I went up in the city the other dav and ate my first meal in France, away from the camp. Also my first new potatoes. They have some good wheat crops hero which is now almost ripe. There are lots of pretty French girls over here, too, but they are not like our home girls. At least they don't look so good to me. Have not found one that I like yet. Some of the fellows fel-lows are marrying over here. I put in most of my spare moments roaming through the fields, so do not bother with the girls. Guess I had better stop. Shall write as often as I can, and hope you will do the same. With love and best wishes to all, I remain your loving son nnd brother, GEO. M. HUNTER son and brother, GEORGE M. HUNTER. |