Show SEES BIG FIGHTS 1 HIT AFTER PEACE to togo through several weeks of if activity on the champagne front to be in the midst of 0 ti abe e slit lit at cb chateau at eau thierry to cross the st I 1 sector and assist at verdun all without a scratch and then to be sent ant to the hospital when a corn com paulin paul in net ne t him carelessly ca elesely dropped a hand serenade while in a rest cacio camo after the tho signing of the armistice was the experience of harry greaser of the infantry brother of F W greaser of this elly thu tho provoking pait of ib it waa was thit the fello lello who dropped the grenade di did not even company mes meg the local man received a lung long letter k this his telling me etory story the young soldier expects soon to be sent homp home as be bo had been in the hospital in pata for or 20 daya days when he wrote and his corn com pany was far advanced on its march into germany an idea of the traveling some F of the boyi have dene may be gleaned from a short extract from the letter he ile says the lint letter I 1 received from you I 1 got when I 1 waa was on the lorraine front I 1 stayed part of my time in a little town by the nime of badon villier it was only two blocks from the front line there J was for daya days without relief then we were started for the rear thinh l ing wo bere rere gling back for a rest well nell we I 1 went back for a rest all ail right they fichot us up to the champagne fron and there we vere were for a few moro weeks three other fello fellars a and arid myself were stationed out in a woods at a visual station welt well at midnight on luly july 15 another beltow and I 1 on duty watching for signals and at 10 minutes past pst 1 I 1 1 the germans opened all their guns aej ld i ut on L nho 1 big barrage which shook the earth underneath you ano lighted the sky for 25 miles awn that wis when the germans started to I 1 malle a drive for paris but the joke of it is that we had about guns cracking at them all at once how flow far fardie did poor old fuld fritz get not even started from champagne ve we went to chateau Thle thierry rrT that i was as another healthy place well vella A we drove thai the dutch across th york river anyway and horn itom the we went to the st front and anit had another interesting time and from there to the argonne hint tont well I 1 mean to say it wai gone too we a battle or two there and then we went to verdun and from verdun we started marching back and then the armistice was signed thanks to god how did you spend thanksgiving I 1 suppose you had turkey the red cibas gave us our dinn erand believe me it asa dinner too we had turkey mashed washed potatoes dressing dres olives bread butter coffee celery pie cake ice lee cream nuts and ci ei garet garets the red cros cross comes around every other day and givern us its ci garets cookies and sometimes ice lee cream say let me tell you stick up for the red cross for they are more than doing their share |