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Semper Fidelis
Marine Corp. Logo
United States Marines
Quantico, Va. May 11, 1918

Dear Mother,
Arrived here this morning
and sure was glad to step off from
the train as it was getting mighty
tiresome. Was seven and a half days
on the road and never got off from
the train but 3 or 4 times on the way.

We passed through eleven states
in all. Come by the valley route
& stopped off in Los Angeles about
fifteen minutes to limber up. Our next
stop was in El Paso Texas. It is a
quite a nice town according to my
notion. The Red Cross passed out
apples and post cards to us. There