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Show LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS Private Kdwin Wehh. Cook. Looking Forward to Keiinion With Family Fam-ily When War la Over. Somewhere in France, Sept. 29. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Webb, Cedar City. Hear Father and Mother. I received vour dear and most welcome letter and was certainly ijlnd to hear from vou and to know thnt you are all well. I pot a letter from Naomi yesterday and believe me, I was plnd to pet it for it ia the fust time I have heard from her for over three months and she wrote such n good letter, it nearly did me up. I tried not to break down but I had to, I was so lonely, anyway. I trot it about noon and I did not do any more work and was quite sick all last niirht, but I'll have to try and make the best of it and stand it 'till I iret home Sgsln with you all. She sent me a picture of her and the baby, and she looks so sweet. Oh, I lonp for the time to come when we can all he together to-gether Bgsin and be happy. I am very sorry Herman has to gO but for heaven's sake don't let Alma I go keep one at home at least. Re li too JTOUIIg to go to any navy yard anyway. I wrote him a letter a day or two aR-o. Don't worry shout me, Mother, for I am sirighl and getting Slong line, only I have a cold; but think I will be alright in a few days. They are very good to me here, nothing like they were in the states. I can iret almost anything I .'iik for and the mess sergeant wanted to make me first cook here a few days SgO, but I told him I didn't want him to, -o I gUSSa he won't. I like the vvork fine and of course don't know how long We will stay here, but I will slay In the kitchen as lonp as we are here. Naomi said there were over a hundred hun-dred Cedar boys in the service now j and more still going, ami it looks tike I there won't be muny left after a while. I I haven't seen one of them since T left Camp Lewis and don 'I know where I any of them are, but would give anything any-thing to see some of them. The boss 1 am with now are all from the South and they sure treat nie dandy. I have been out walking around camp for a few hums this afternoon, it is the first time I have been away from camp i for a long time. " It will soon be a year since I saw any of you and it seems like ten vurs i since I came over here. 1 will soon be wearing a service stripe for my I six months service over here. We are having pretty hard old Wai OVSr hen- but I don't think it will last much Ionizer; we have only one mole important place to take 'iinl then the end will come pretty quick, and we'll have that before Innjj. I would like to tell you all about the front, but we are not allowed to tell very much about it. I had one very rood friend killed up there a while back. Naomi said some of the (edar boys had been up to the front and BOtne of I hem had been wounded. I haven't heard of anv of them irel- tin": killed yet. Those damned Germans Ger-mans don't care who they hit, but they Will before this war Is over. I hope I never have any children iro to the army, for If a person will jret laiy(T) any place on earth they will in tin- army Bomeone will have to keep me when I gl t back home, for I will never leave the place again. I am in a hurry to uel back home and iret. a place of my own and fet some-thin"; some-thin"; around me io I can live a food life and be happy once more, but I am happy to know that I have a good wife and parents to rn back to, that is enough to make a good man out of any fellow and I am trying to live as good as ' ' im "vet hen so that Wi all can be togsthei again tome time. Well, it is .-upper time -o I will go down and gal something to est snd finish tills aftoi i Next Mm ninn:; Didn't get to finish this letter last niv'ht so will try to finish it now. I just got through work a little while ago Snd it is nearly eijrht o'clock. I ited work at three o'clock this morning and believe me, it's some long old day. I am sure ready for b.-d fbe paper said tonight that the iei mans lost 50,000 men. That is some bunch to let go at a time, but it sure sounds good to us over here. (Continued on fifth page.) ' ) J LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS (Continued from first page.) I don't see how the war can last much longer and then we will all be home soon. I don't know of anything more for this time, so will close this with much love from your ever loving son, COOK EDWIN WEBB. Co. F., 116 Supply Train, American Post Office. A. E. F., France. |
