Your pal, JACK.

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_Somewheres in France, March 6._

FRIEND AL: Well Al I suppose you have read in the communicates that comes
out in the paper where the Americans that's all ready in the trenchs has
pulled off some great stuff and a whole lot of them has been sighted and
give meddles and etc. by the Frenchmens for what they have pulled off
and the way they work it Al when one of the soldiers wrists his life or
something and pulls off something big like takeing a mess of prisoners and
bringing them back here where they can get something to eat the French
pins a meddle on them and sometimes they do it if you don't do nothing but
die only then of course they send it to your family so as they will have
something to show their friends besides snapshots of Mich. City.

Well we was kidding back and fourth about it today and one of the smart
alex in our Co. a bird named Johnny Alcock that is always trying to kid
somebody all the time he said to me "Well I suppose they will half to build
more tonnages to carry all the meddles you will win back to the states." So
I said "Well I guess I will win as many of them as you will win." That shut
him up for a wile but finely he says "You have got enough chest to wear
a whole junk shop on it." So I said "Well I am not the baby that can't
win them." So he says "If you ever happen to be snooping around the bosh
trenchs when Fritz climbs over the top you will come back so fast that the
Kaiser will want to know who was that speed merchant that led the charge
and decorate you with a iron cross." So I said "I will decorate you right
in the eye one of these days." So he had to shut up and all the other boys