got for us to train in them and they was a bunch of French officers trying
to learn us how to do this in that and etc. and some of the time you could
all most understand what they was trying to tell you and then it was stuff
we learnt the first wk. out to Camp Grant and I suppose when they get so as
they can speak a few words of English they will tell us we ought to stand
up when we hear the Star spangle Banner. Well we was a pretty sight when
we got back with the mud and slush and everything and by the time they get
ready to call us into action they will half to page us in the morgue.

About every 2 or 3 miles today we would pass through a town where some of
the rest of the boys has got their billets only they don't call it miles in
France because that's to easy to say but instead of miles they call them
kilometts. But any way from the number of jerk water burgs we went through
you would think we was on the Monon and the towns all looks so much like
the other that when one of the French soldiers gets a few days leave off
they half to spend most of it looking for land marks so as they will know
if they are where they live. And they couldn't even be sure if it was warm
weather and their folks was standing out in front of the house because all
the familys is just alike with the old Mr. and the Mrs. and pigs and a cow
and a dog.

Well Al they say its pretty quite these days up to the front and the boys
that's been around here a wile says you can hear the guns when they's
something doing and the wind blows this way but we haven't heard no guns
yet only our own out to where we have riffle practice but everybody says as
soon as spring comes and the weather warms up the Germans is sure to start
something. Well I don't care if they start anything or not just so the
weather warms up and besides they won't never finish what they start unless
they start going back home and they won't even finish that unless they show
a whole lot more speed then they did comeing. They are just trying to throw