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how much a letter is appreciated
from there "ma" until they get
away from home.

The Germans are
surely running off at present.
You cannot understand the
more finer points of the fighting
that is going on over there now
as well as I can, as we have
been drilling for the last
month in making a retreat
without running wild, and
that is just what the English
had to do yesterday. If
that is true about bombarding
Paris sixty-two miles away we
might as well quit now. For
my part I think it was airships.

I received a letter from
Ralph a few days ago. He
said Romona Martinez was
pretty bad off. That poor
girl has certainly had her
share of sickness.

Have you seen Allen
yet? He was not here last
Wednesday, and was going to
leave Thursday morning for
Mare Island I would like
to have some of his luck.
I was in charge of quarters the
day he was out so had to