Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-02-06

Muese River about thirty kllome-
tiers from Sedan and we started
thirty-six kilometers from the river
close to Argonna forest. In every
drive the second division has made
since we started at Scissors | think
we have taken more prisoners than
any other Division and we sure did
some real fighting too. At evsry
place, always at the hardest points,
they would send us and we were
always in a horseshoe when we got
done driving. No other Division
could keep up with us and when
we were waiting for the others to
catch up the Germans could shoot
on US from three sides. 1t was there
we always lost the most of our men
!. sure saw lots of good friends get
ting wounded. We only had very
few killed but lots of them are
wounded. / don't know if you ev-
er have seen anything in the paper
about the work the second division
have done over here. 1t is the Ma
tional Guard and National Army
that were getting all the praise
while we were fighting. The Reg
ulars were never mentioned over
here in any Of the papers. Well,
it don't make much difference who
did the best fighting as long as we
licked the Duth. We are all won
dering now who will be going home
first. Second Division thinks we
will be going first and the rest the
same, suppose. The most of the
people in Belgium sure treat us fine
in Belgium. The women didn't
know how to act when they saw us
coming. We thot they would go
wild all at once. Ha! Ha! And here
in Luxembourg most of them think
the world of the American Soldiers.
OF course, there are a few pro-ger-
mans among them but don't think
they like themselves. We sure had
some move when we started on
200 mile But it isn't as bad for us
as we have cars to 60 in. The poor
Infantry boys have, to walk all the
way through. We have been on the
way over week now.
Today is Thanksgiving Day and
we sure had fine dinner. We bot
five little pigs weighing about 60
pounds apiece and plenty Of pota-
toes. We would be living pretty
good if we could only get that once
"a day. We had to go out and buy
everything out of the car fund so
you see if we had known we were
going to stay here as long as we did
we could have got lot more than
we did get, but as it was we had a
pretty good Thanksgiving dinner.
Not like last year tho. Well, they
were just saying in here that our
Division would be in the States by
Xmas. l hope so. Jens was sure
lucky that he didn't have to come
over here. How is the flu in the
States? It was pretty bad here for
awhile but is better now. | sup
pose Jens will be getting his dis
charge pretty soon. | don't think
there is much of a chance to get
mine yet but | don't care as long
as there is a chance to get back to
the states. How is everybody
around home getting along. Are
everybody done with their corn
picking yet. Did you and Rose
pick all of your fathers corn or did
Christina come home and help.
Maybe all of you got tired Of it
and made your father hire somebo.
dy to help you. Well, l don't know
any more to write and It'll is getting
late SO will close, hoping these few
lines will find you all well. Don't
forget to tell everybody hello from
me, / remain as ever,
Your true and Loving cousin,
i CRPL. CARL FRICKE
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