That's what I tore off and when he comes around again I will have it for
him and if you see it in the Chi papers you will know who wrote it up and
maybe somebody will write a song to it but of course they can't sign my
name to it unless I get killed or something but I guess at that they ain't
so many soldiers over here that can turn out stuff like that but what my
friends won't be pretty sure who wrote it.

But if something does happen to me I wished you would kind of keep your
eyes pealed and if the song comes out try and see that Florrie gets some
jack out of it and I haven't wrote nothing to her about it because she is
like all other wifes and when somebodys else husband pulls something its
O. K. but if their own husband does it he must of had a snoot full.

Well today was so rotten that they didn't make us go nowheres and I'll say
its got to be pretty rotten when they do that and the meal they give us
tonight wouldn't of bulged out a grandaddy long legs and I and my buddy
Frank Carson was both hungry after we eat and I suppose you will wonder
what do I mean by buddy. Well Al that's a name I got up for who ever you
pal around with or bunk next to them and now everybody calls their pal
their buddy. Well any way he says why didn't we go over to the Red X
canteen resturent and buy ourself a feed so we went over and its a little
shack where the Red X serves you a pretty good meal for 1 frank and that's
about $.19 cents and they don't try and make no profits on it but just run
them so as a man don't half to go along all the wile on what the army hands
out to you.

Well they was 3 janes on the job over there and 2 of them would be safe
anywheres you put them but the other one is Class A and her old woman must
of been pie eyed when she left her come over here. Well Carson said she