World War I Collection

looked like a fourth of July celebration. When we went down the New York harbor they blew whistles and rang bells. We went thru some awfully pretty country, in New York state to. I cannot remember half the thngs to tell you. I guess you can see that by the way I jump from one thing to another. It was just daylight when we crossed the Mississippi river at St. Louis so I could not see very much of it. We arrived at Camp [crossed out] about four Sunday afternoon. The day we left the paper boys said it was the hottest day they had had in 37 years. A number of men dropped out on account of the heat when we were marching to the train. We certainly had a heavy pack on. We had