Show phillip PRIVATE PURKEY ON dear ma well I 1 lim am just back from another man with my outfit and I 1 dont know whether we won or lost on account ot of there was a dispute between the umpires one ruled that we was exterminated and the other came up with a decision that we was not even touched it is all on account of the flag system witch I 1 gess you ne never ver heard of so I 1 will emplane it to you ma of 0 coarse we do not s shoot he ot each other in these here war games but at the same time nobody can tell how the fight came out if it is all forgot as just a cross country outing so a lot of flags is used to denote where we are and what hap bened all we jeeps do is obey orders and we dont even know what the main idea is but the observers and umpires who have the whole thing worked out on maps get a idea what wood of happened if it had been a actual battle here Is where the flags come in 4 0 4 an umpire waving a blue flag btag inder dermates cates that you are smack in the middle of an area witch is under artillery and that it is a very unhealthy spot to stay in it if he has a yellow flag it is ser posed to show that you are under machine gun fire and that it if you go any further into it you wood be shot full of holes in a real war another colored flag means that we are advancing thru a heavy smoke screen and so on I 1 heard that in this last battle somebody got all mixed up on the flags and it still is ei a question witch got mixed up most the officers or the referees anyhow one official said the flags meant my division had walked right through a area witch ditc it the en enemy emy was giving the works and that we was mostly all dead or wounded he said that in a real fight all of us wood have been legible to be e buried as the unknown soldier another referee said nothing of the kind he said ho he was a 8 better judge of flags than the other fellow and that from what he be saw we had been safe s afe an all the time except from more bunions of coarse cears e for all 1 I know one of em is color blind but buta I 1 do not care as long osithe the ger generals ketels do not order the game played over again believe me I 1 am glad the tha summer er is almost a over as the weather see seems ms twice as hot in a army as it does any anywhere else and it seems to me r I 1 h have a ve S spent pent the last four weeks in as a dust dusi cloud I 1 ni never ver 0 knew there was so much du dust st in america it wood almost be a great break for me if I 1 got lent io fo iceland e except xoe pt that I 1 do not think chii I would like the long days up there sergeant mooney says the sun does not set at all in the summer in iceland and that it is day time 24 hours A 12 hour day is plenty f tor or me especially in the army in a place where the suri sun does not go down I 1 wood be afraid the bugler wood get all mixed up and start blowing me out of bed at midnight well anyhow I 1 am getting so used to tough brakes that nothing bothers me much no more except when I 1 do not get regular letters from you and lillian arid doris and all the girls witch reminds me do you know where lucretia willetts Wil leets has moved all my letters to her come back love oscar V two simple strokes loosen the yokes fashioned by tyranny marked in the night yield in the light omens for all to see on wall and on door more and yet more symbols of victory pointed and narrow sharp as an arrow this is the letter V I 1 richard armour 0 elmer twitchell says a lot of people wont really get aroused to the realities of the war crisis until they see the prospect of a return of prohibition and homemade gin I 1 s 0 I 1 A PAIR OF CURS CUBS id like to see him ill rm go to prison also pay a fine we both raise dogs and he let hi n whip that pup of mine merrill chilcote 0 4 what was once oil for the lamps dl I 1 1 china has become oil for the 41 amps of japari japan veils ari are coming back were told well maybe its an easier way to glamour than jus less lesa makeup |