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Show TELLS OF BEING SHELLED BY HUNS ALFRED CHERRY WRITES OK EXPER1EXCKS IX KKAXC'H September 3, 191S. Dearest Folks: I am very sorry I haven't written to you oftenor, bnt I have been and am yet in a place where writing is almost impossible. The Y. M. C. A. man came around yesterday and brought some paper. That is the first time he has been here since I have been at the front. I joined the Regiment at the front the ISth of August, and have been there ever since. I was at Chatau Thierry for a week and we moved from there to another - (deleted) We all sleep in dug-outs and are quite safe in them. You can't imagine how one feels when you are being shelled, just lay in your hole and wonder if the next one is going to get you or not. The country here is nothing but desolation. Barbed wire entanglements, entangle-ments, trenches, shell holes, and towns, some smaller and some larger than Mount Pleasant, blown to nothing. noth-ing. Mother it is hard ,to realize. But through all the trials, hardships and danger I have gone through, I have not once regretted that I enlisted. en-listed. In a few days our division is going back to God's country for a rest. I have not seen a civilian or a woman for a long time. This is all the paper I have. My health is wonderful and I am enjoying enjoy-ing life the best I can. Tell all hello, and kiss them. Love, Alfred. Address: Alfred K. Cherry, 119 Field Artillery, A. P. O. 734. American E. F. France. |