The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
MEN N HOSPITAL
SEND WORD HOME
TWO BRoOklNcs BOYS WHO ARE
WOUNDED WRITE HOME
TO THEIR FOLKS
SOON TO Be BACK N THE FIGHTING LINE
Letters From Boys On This Side Of
The Pond Who Are Getting Ready
To Go Across to Strafe Hun

Since receiving the card
ing that Glenn Matson was wounded
and in the hospital. Mr.. and Mrs. AL
bert Matson have received five letters
from him. most of them all coming at
one time. Letter number three got
here several days ahead of all the
others. Through the courtesy of
Judge Matson, the Register is able to
give the following excerpts from these
letters.
August Sth-Dear Folks: Suppose
you have been notified by this time
Of my injury. think / am very
lucky the way it came out. The shell
which wounded me did considerable
damage to my section. sustained
three wounds, lone Of them breaking
bones, in fact one of them is on my
right forearm and that Is the arm |
am using to write to you with, so
you see that won't any worry.
The other two were flesh wounds in
the thigh. They are not bad and I
am doing fine. We are in fine Amer
lean base hospital with Red Cross
nurses and have good care. There
were a lot of Americans hurt at the
same place but you ought to have
seen the Dutchmen that we got. They
can't fight only when they have to.
The Americans sure are fighters and
the rest of the allies are just as good.
Don't worry about my being wound
ed as they are not any worse than
one | got on the border. Might be
here a month and then go to GONZALES
cent camp. Was wounded Aug. 3, and
am fiat broke as | lost everything /
had getting here from the battery.
Am now way down in France, back
from the front.
August 11th-Slept all last night
without waking, wounds are well
along in healing, a move my legs
easily. Weather the past few days
wonderful and makes me want to
walk around. Wonderful luck in get
ting wounded as l did. Miracle did
not get a bone fractured. Mere flesh
wounds that will give me a chance to
get a good rest. AS this is on the
s. o. s. we are allowed to tell where
the town is so you can find where l
am. Out of the fight for awhile at
least, but my health is fine.
Hospital Center. Base 48,
Mars Sur Alters.
August 13th-Wounds healing fine,
cause me no trouble, in about two
weeks think / will be able to move
around. Doctor told me l was lucky
as | sustained no fractures. I Ger.
tainly do sleep nights, nice soft beds
and clean sheets, quite a change from
one blanket on the hard ground. Food
is pretty good. Far from the advance
zone for first time since we landed
in January. Was in a dugout all night
after | was wounded, it was first aid
station and bombarded SO they could
not get us out. In fine condition now.
August 1Sth-Still doing fine, not
a sign of infection, and of course am
safe from that as | am in a base hos
pital. The little cut on my arm is
nearly healed. The allies are doing
fine, and it looks as il the kaiser's
goose was cooked. Hope we can eat
Christmas dinner at home. / got pref
ty mad after being wounded to have
to lose all my personal stuff, includ-
ing a watch l had bought and most
important a can of currant jelly I'd
been saving for a treat. We a buy
such stuff here al the commissary.
We get some cigarettes here at the
base from the Red Cross. Think
things look a lot brighter and you
will see the place at the dinner table
filled by a hungry soldier.
August 20th-Feeling good and no
pain from wounds. Still in bed, but
expect to get up in a week. 1t is
tiresome to lay in bed, but we have
a few magazines and papers to read.
After wounds are healed you are clas-
sifed, A. B. c or d, A, in being In
convalescent camp a short time. B,
there a few months; C, back of lines
on light labor, but not on active SER
vice. D, you 90 back to the states.
The nurse In our ward is q sister 20
Mrs. Maher, l think she said she had
been In Brookings. Hope ! will got
some mail soon. have written : nun-
Der OF letters since coming here.
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