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Show uu I I WOUNDED THREE ': TINES IN ATM Wounded three times in recent fighting with the Sixteenth infantry Is tho record of Captain Homer S. Young, formerly of Ogden. He is now at base hospital No, 8, according to a letter received by a friend, Mark Anderson, An-derson, grazing inspector for the local lo-cal district, forest service. Captain Young's home is In, Twin Falls. His letter follows: "I claim that I am about as unlucky as a man can be. I have been evacuated evacu-ated from the front three times and haven't got a good healthy wound yet Last time it was a touch of mustard gas which I got in front of Montdidler on June 2. This time I got laid out on the first day of the big counter-offensive between the Marne and the Aisnc. I was resting in a small boche dugout while we were consolidating our final position. With me woro a battalion surgeon and a stretcher bearer. A '105 shell came in through, the roof without knocking, killed my two comrades com-rades and buried me. It laid me cold and smothered mo up a little, bad bruises from the hips to the ankles but no real wounds. They dug me out of tho ruins and sent mo back hero near the Atlantic coast and now after three weeks of rest I am good as new and will soon be back with the finest regiment in the army again. Americans Attack. "This last show was a variety. It would have done your heart good to |