Show LITTER TILE FRONT somewhere in france oct 1918 dear johnson and evans we are down to serious business it at last over here after all our mean deriggs and wanderings atter after watching the big show for four years it finally came my turn to go into the thing and get a taste of wh what at it means to buck center if you please and let me say that a little of that animal they call avar war goes an awful long ways dont let anybody try to convince you that there Is anything desirable or glorious about war for such Is all humbug this life is just one continuous ding dong of storm hard work danger and disagreeableness from one days end to another you never know when the sun rises whether you will live to see it set or not and such uncertainty is not the most pleasant sensation in the world you may be sure but notwithstanding such unpleasant surroundings the spirit of uncle sams boys is the best knowing as they do that it takes fire to fight fire and realizing furthermore that the harder we hit the ball the sooner tho the game is over to the everlasting relief of all concerned during the last couple of weeks I 1 have had the novel experience of coining under tinder german shell ire fire and of beli beholding tile the horrors ot of war in all their sickening aspects of destruction st and death and may I 1 say that it is a curse above all efforts to describe the sight of the dead mangled beyond recognition almost and of the wounded in all degrees of wounds and distress are sights to make us determined that this scourge of 0 war shall visit this world no more almighty god gr grant ant that such inch may be ther the case and to think that it has all come about to gratify the lustful ambitions of a small cottrie of wicked men it there Is such a thing as justice in the category of virtues those german cerman war lords responsible tor for this inferno of destruction should be handed banded over ever to the swift punishment which Is rightfully theirs it if the allies stop short of this they have in part at least tailed failed to do their nil full duty by humanity it is a hard matter to tell YOU yon very much in a letter of this kind but when the boys return they will be loaded up with tales for you I 1 might state however that we travel considerably are arc billeted in barns where the stock is moved out to per to move in this in some cases arid and in some instances we occupy quarters jointly with the stock work vork with the Vic vickers liers machine guns when we go into action clean up the towns where we are located when in rest bi billets lIetsi and gather up th the dead and wounded oft the bat when the battalion is in reserve in short every phase of the soldiers life is ours so we will be pretty well lined up on the military stuff when the job Is done personally I 1 have not seen a sick day since I 1 left roosevelt am working in ill the battalion headquarters office at present and have no kick whatever to make hope everything i is sailing along satisfactorily with the roosevelt ampt and trusting trus that things may so shape themselves that I 1 can soon shake you by the hand again I 1 am I 1 very sincerely yours LAMAR ROBINSON alq co INI G en A E F APO 77 P S saw raymond reef the other day just before going into battle lie ile was 0 K X at that time do not know whether he came out so or not heard of him since |