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American Lake July 24, 1917

Dear Ma:

All we have is ideas about
when we are going to leave. There
is nothing definite at all but we
do know it will be soon. As I
said before we will leave before
the rest of the Reg. because they
are recruiting one hundred more
men. Some of the fellows got
their discharge on account of
sickness. We need more men to
do kitchen work, the privates are
doing that now, and a bunch
more in different lines. They
will have to train all these
men so wherever we go we will
stay a while to get ready. They
will not send us accross the
waters untill we are thoroughly
trained and ready to stand