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Show SOLDIER WRITES TO HIS MOTHER FROM FRANCE Soldier George D. rrcston writes a cheery, Interesting letter to his1 mother, Suffering from a bullet! wound and being cared for at a baso hospital "somewhere in Fiance" ho 'says ho Is "feeling Just steat" nnd ! the only thing Hint Is' laektug to mako him happy, under tho clicum- I stances Is news from homo. This is tho way tho wounded young man writes to his dear mother: Bordeaux, July 23, 1018 Dear' Mother: Just another noto to keep you from worrying about mo for I know that you will worry if you know I have gone to a hospital. I nm feeling Just great Just a . very slight bullet wound In the lower low-er calf. Tho thing that pains mo most is tho lack of mall. Tho Ml-enco Ml-enco from you is still unbiokon since I left the good old U. S. A. ' This is n base hospital and Is on tho . It is cortnlnly a hugo affair. Tho holls nro blocks long. Y. M. C A., lied Cioss and nil tieat us flno. I had another flno plcco of luck ' coming from Paris. Louis Hicks, Joel nicks's son, camo througlithu car and we immediately recogntzed ench other. Ho was In chnrgo of a patt of tho hospital train nnd took me tight In with him. Ho trained with Book In Ft. Itlley nnd" there wbro a iot of Utah boys on ttio tinin so r lind a flndtliilb" crhoulo. It seems almost Ilko coming homo to meet boino ono you hno known for so long a time. Wo talked about ever) body In Logan. I would like to know how tilings nro coming. In tho meantime keep up your letters to mo. I am your loving son, i GEO. D. PUESTON, P. S. Givo all my love. |