The Holt County sentinel., 1919-02-14
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HEARING FROM THE BOYS.
Ernm Ed Hicks.

/ service, and IL has been that way up
to the signing OF the armistice-hence
little opportunity comes to the soldier
to write time and inability to obtain
writing materials the principle rea.
sons. Now that IL is all over except
/ coming home. ! will say ! was at the
| front in the greatest battles OF the
I war.
4 was considerably run down for
n while but am In lnc condition now
! and weigh 100 pounds. and the only
Kick ! have is the delay In sending W.
; back home to our loved ones am
/ tired already of Germany, and will be
glad when we start homcward. But
I things have changed, and We have
Germany In u place where she cant
b start anything. and u fellow II as safe
here az u he were back home. aud
0 doubtless Germany now realizes that
III" cant dominate the world.
n fgvc been out In all kinds Of
weather, and when the fighting was
On II seemed M II II was the mcanest
KIND oi weather all the time In fact
"" don't have much oi any other Kind
over here. We were never under u
roof during the field operations. rave
the heavens. and only the twinklinR
stars to look down upon us but the
boyn are all healthy, and II seems that
We really improve ~ We get accua'
toned to the life and climate. and ex.
posture doesn't seem Ia hurt us.
u have slept in a shell hole. In the
mud and water with the rain falling
on YOU all the night long. and u isn't
healthy you know to sleep upon the
ground. for Fritz might take n notion
Ia. a.aI InN All and
know where they are going to burst.
80 that IL why We preferred the
holes when you are below the sur.
face OF the ground there isn't near No
much danger Of shrapncll. and ma.
chine KUN bullets. The most danger.
GUS time In when you advance; then
you have to go under shell Are, and
the raking IRE from the machine
guns.
1T would be- impossible TO describe
u battle In detail In u letter. 80
viii wat, for this until my return
home. In some ways the war wasn't
~ bad as I had imagined. ! dreaded
: the shells the most You can hear
them coming through III" air making
n whining noise. and II doesn't take
long until you can tell by the noise
" they are going To light close, and
I tell you II CRATES on your nerves.
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