Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-02-26
ANGUS BOY WRITES tie
FROM lover THERE
Amanty, France, Jan. 20, 1919.

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My Dear Parents:
AS l have received several letters
| from home and have a little time, i
will answer. We don't get very much
time when we do we sure try to get a
letter started on it's long journey over
seas. We are kept real busy here now
at present, as there are some over forty
men out on pass or furloughs touring
France, so we are short of men and by
the time we get all Of our horses taken
care Of and few other minor details
attended to it generally takes up our
whole day, then comes our grand duty
at night, so you can see by that we
haven't much. time off for ourselves.
But / guess it is all for the best, at
least we all hope so. We turned in all
Of our horses to the mobile sector short
ly after we pulled off the front, that is
all we had left, we only had some
thing like fifty left out of our one hun
dred and fifty, SO it wasn't much of
job turning them in. Some outfits
Jared worse then we did. think we
were rather fortunate in all the battles
we were in or took part in. l believe
from what have seen and the differ
ent fronts we were on, the worst one
was the Meuse-A rgonne It is close to
Verdun. We were on that front forty
five days if remember right. We GER
tainly were ready for rest when the
order came to move back. We fired
ourselves out Of range in the last big
Barrage what was fred on that front,
then we pulled back. That certainly
was big barrage, person could hard
~ hear himself think. The artillery
was placed so close that the guns were
almost hub to hub I wish you could
have heard them when they all started
to shoot. The barrage started around
three o'clock III the morning and lasted
i23 hours, it certainly was sight. l
know would rather have been in the
good old U. S. A., than where our shells
were lighting. Our infantry went over
the top around five In the morning and
then kept on a hot chase after the
BOche until the armistice was signed.
have been fortunate to meet some Of
the boys from our old outfit last July
but haven't seen any Of them since. We
receive letters from each other quite
often. The larger bunch of them are
scattered through the 2Sth Division,
they are now doing border duty some
place in Belgium. I received letter
a few days ago from my old chum, Ray
;; Mcneil. He is still in my old outfit,
125th F. A., Bat. E. They were close to
Bordeaux the time he wrote me- I
think they can consider themselves
rather in luck, getting home so soon
after the war as they did. He said all
they were doing was playing ball.
wish he could see the place we5are in
now and he wouldn't play ball unless
it would be mud ball., for there is
plenty of mud for it seems to rain here
SO much. I also received letter from
Walter Miller. / see he is now in the
125th Supply Co.. If you We're here
you could always here someone saying,
wonder when Uncle Sam is going to
send us home. We certainly have
wished for home often enough, but that
don't seem much good. Time will tell,
I suppose. wonder how those slack
ers feel when they see the soldiers
coming home that were brave enough
to go and do their part in saving their
country. Those who got exempted-so
often those who wanted to make all
they could while prices were good, and
we boys working to save our country,
putting our lives up for target at a
dollar day. l am glad have done all
I could. I am not ashamed. can
look anyone in the eyes and feel did
all could. wrote Anna Dobias a few
lines few days ago. I don't suppose
will hear from her very soon as it
takes mail very near as long to travel
over here to one another as it does to
60 to the states. You would not think