The copper era and Morenci leader., 1919-03-14
LETTERS FROMOUR
 BOYS OVER THERE"
Erang Germany, Jan 22, 1919.

Erang. Germany, Jan. 22, 1919. Dear Parents:
 Just few lines to let you know that l am well. I just received a letter from you dated Dec. 10, saying you hadn't heard from me yet but l suppose you have by now for I have been writing every chance I get which is about three times a week. 1 We are sure getting along fine now we have good beds to sleep in and pretty plenty to eat and just enough drill to give. us a good appe- tite.
 I sure wish I could have my pie ture taken, I weigh 40 lbs. and wear | a No. } shoe so I guess Cooney will get my boots and shoes for I am afraid they will be too small but my feet don't bother me much anymore Say mother the whole Battalion got out and run rabbits this morning. We made big circle and just run them back and forth to each other until we run them down. One jumped | in the river and got away, but we will get him next time. We'll where is all of the boys. at the ranch I sup pose? I guess they are pretty busy now. I expect to, be there to take
 
 no news so I will stop and go up stairs and roll my pack for we are going on problem tomorrow
 Roy E. Laney.
 German Boy Writes Parents l am writing on der run, and der brave @und glorious soldiers under my commant have not seen der - Rhine for so. long dot de have started back lot Of init, dem. o ladder der has ben some offel dings happened here in France First I started in my big offensive which was to crush dem fool Ameri- cans. But dey know SO little about military tactics dot de will not De crushed chust like want em. I sent my men finder fight in big waves unt ven de got to der Americans dey all
 said boo" as loud as dey could hoI- Ter. We'll. according to what you have always told me, de Americans should have run like blazes, but vat lyou think?, Dem fool Americans don't know anything about war, unt in- stead of running the odder way, dey came right towards us singing about we vent come back tils it's over. over dere' or some other foolish song, and some of dem were laffing like fools. Dey are so ignorant. But dey are offel reckless init dere guns, unt ven dey come toward is it yes den my men took anotion dey wanted to go back to der dear old Rhine. We don't like the little dirty marine riv- CT anyhow, and oh. ladder, dem Am- ericans use such offel language, dey know nothing of culture. Unt say such offel things right before us, unt der talk blasphemy too. Vat YOU think dey said right in front of my face One big husky from the place de call Missouri, he said: O ladder nate to tell you vat an offel ding ne say. but l can't help it, he said "To Hell Nit de Kaiser" Did you ever near anything so offel? I didn't dink anybody would say such an offelding. It made mo so mad I wouldn't stand an hear such an offel ding I turned around unt run init der .odder boys. Vas l right? Un oh ladder you know dem Breast Blates, vot you sent us, can you sent some to be put on our backs? You see ve are going de oder way now, unt breast plates iss no good, for der cowardly Americans iss shooting us right in der back Some of our boys took off der breast plates "AA put Siii bSiiiI, puI uSl lOOl All ericans is playing ''der Star Spangled Banner on dem breast plates init i der machine guns already. Cant you help us? You remember in your speech you said holdings can stand before der brave German soldiers. Oh, ladder, I don't believe desc ig- norant Americans ever read your speech for der run after us shust like ve vas lot of rabbits. Vot you dink of dot. Can't you sent some of your speeches right away? Fadder you don't knew how terrible we iss.
 Cant you take my army back to Bel
 gium were ve von all our glory. My
 brave men can vip der wimmen und children vot dem Belgiums can bring
 us. But desc Americans iss so
 rough unt ignorant. We can't make
 dem understand vot ve iss der great
 est soldiers on earth. Unt ven ve try to sing Deutschland ube Alles'' der ust laugh like a lot of monkeys
 but ve iss getting der bets of der Am
 ericans. We can outrun dem anyway
 ladder, if ve iss not der best fighters