Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-11-20

caused from the fare of guns in go
ing off. 1t seemed as if they had
grown right up out of the ground
over night, as there were none there
that | seen the night before. The
woods and hillsides were more than
thick with them, even the roads had
guns here and there, wherever
there was room enough for one, and
Mrs. Jayne, it sure was a great sight
to behold, and one that will never
be forgotten by those who seen it.
Since then / have often thought of
the scenes in moving pictures, but
they are very tame, after seeing the
real thing. After standing in the
doorway for several minutes, l went
inside, and with couple of Red
Cross men, had a little lunch, con-
sisting of chocolate bar and hard
tack, which was furnished by them,
and tasted real good, especially the
chocolate bars, as it was the first
had tasted for several weeks. We
did not go to bed any more, as it
would have been useless to try to
sleep with all the noise going on out
side. So l rolled my pack and pack
ed my typewriter and field desk and
waited for daylight to come. At the
break of day | got my things together
and loaded them on the kitchen
(Which is on wheels) and stayed
with it for couple OF days. At FIVE
o'clock that morning our CO. went
over the top and drove the Huns
back for over distance of kilo-
meters, tagging many prisoners in the
advance. While l was with the
kitchen guarding my things, seen
many Of the prisoners go by, hun
dreds at time, it seemed as if all
of Germany was coming in, but there
was no such luck that time, altho
i think the time is not very far dis
tant when they are going to realize
that Uncle Sam did not take part in
it for fun, and We are all looking for
ward for that day to come.
After the second day the kitchen
went forward so as to get warm
things to eat to the boys in the
trenches, rode little ways, but
as I had orders not to get too close
to the front, with the records that
was guarding, / got off along th5
road and stayed with another Co
four days. BY that time our com
Epany had fallen back little ways
and / then went to them. The nex'
few days l was kept pretty busy
making out reports Of different kinds
and at the same time listening to the
stories of some of the fellows, o.
course they wanted to know where
/ had been and what / had seen, but
their stories were more interestin:
to me, than mine was to them.
! We are now living in little dug
outs which we have dug in the las
ten days. A sergeant and / live IL
one about te1 feet long and six feel
deep and six feet wide. Also use II
for an office, as in one end We dug
Iout sort of shelf, to put typewriter
and desk on. For roof we laid
-four logs across the top, then put
heavy sheetiron on top of them and
covered it with dirt. One day we
took the old roof off, as we wanted
to fix it little better, so that night
we laid the iron over for shelter,
thought we had it fixed good enough
to hold out little rain, but it rain
ed harder than we thought it would,
and woke up about 81 so a. m. lay
ing in little pool of water, pretty
chilly too that night and you bet 1T
! did not feel very nice, as every move
| | would make a little water would
trickle down my leg.
enjoyed reading STATIONS letter
very much, and am returning 1T to
you, as l think you will want 1T, but
| want to say just few lines more
in closing, which his letter makes me
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