Show 1 OUR I 1 f dear mother 1 I 1 guess you think I 1 have forgot forgotten tc you it has haa been so long since I 1 wrote to you I 1 know I 1 should havo written because I 1 know about how yot yoi worry but every timo time I 1 sat down to write id havo have to quit I 1 feel fed at actori arl got back to tho the company saied d lihi we al but ahan 1 tra ra ot of franco I 1 than 1 I over ever expected to the ladt place wo we stopped was a tow few days before the big drive started in sept ember we were guarding an dobso observation ir balloon and it was thero we got our first initiation by JERRY wo we call the germans je jerry rry I 1 think lie he started to bombard us just to son what we would do tho the first shell threw dirt all around ns is and moia men were diving divine tor for dugouts i till nil after a tow few hail aulo over we ve mind it so BO much sonto bonie of the men mail oven even started to bet v gitein liei tha aird ir eito no was going fo t 0 lilt i ril fellow I 1 wont out and started to ri on oil hs car when a shell lilt bofty 1 otty too to o to him I 1 nearly died I 1 lie ho threw his to atooli ON ii tho hie ar und and tan ran for tho the dugout yelling to ile hell 11 with tile the machinery machI ncr I 1 can how he arAngel aneal moroni calling at tile tho morti lug tile tho drive started wo we lying iving near somo some three inch hat tho ill l started ai bolit two orlice orli cl in tho the morning ond end al boll lver bhore loose it was waa dinu all tho 1 guns frow froin tie iu oldo wore hanging langl ng away dudl tili cholla co coining lIllig from rom jor jai ys 8 aldo loi 01 ill couil nt licar bent etwas w pretty and rii rever never forger it its as long nu I 1 livo lip to a wont want over oer tho the lei at five thirty and wo vo roii followed owea shortly shortly ads jerry retreated pretty fasl for three lays days and it was hard baid wo wora alt to leep up with tho ahn inta y horo ivere lots lota of germa german i scat cc utter tor ed 0 around and our cli chalo cliv had torn tho the ground up I 1 H iad beon been plowed wo wn were driving for twelve days before wo we wco wc o rc lovel but wo busy all tile the time dodging first ono anti thing and ahn another can you being lit in it a certain place with machine run bullets whistling around high explosives throwing dirt till all over you vou then all of a budden a jerry appears overhead and sends sands a 1 tow fow bullets your way ill mayba lio lie homo home before many the thep p I 1 can tell you about tt it aviter t tho lost mail I 1 got was while wo we at tile tho front the there ro must mus f be baa a lot ot of it for TOO rdo somo im not lot wat th t tho 10 company Ooin pany now a low daya wo relieved I 1 K M 11 was I 1 sent to an another r school and that is IB where I 1 amlow M A ow I 1 dont know whether they will wil send me back bach to tile tho company or ot ahoi this school Is over wo we aro good here her we gut get plenty to cati lavo tave four heavy blankets mul and a mat erss to on re arll everybody livili heto tor for nie me with love your loving son joe J D perth Py boutall na C 8 A P 0 10 P |