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Dear Father: -
We are hard at it in the hot sun. We were all mustered in today and they
told us we would be trained immediately for duty overseas and would
probably finish our training in France. I was made acting Corp. today and
am in charge of eight men. I am anxious to be on my way and they can't
move too fast for me. They have artillery practice here and you would
think by the noise that you were already at the front. We were in the
trenches for a while this morning. This is the cleanest place you could
imagine. Every morning we have to march around the Barracks and pick up
all stubs of cigarettes and paper and by eight o'clock you can't find a
match on the ground. That guy that had the quart when we got on the train
is sober now the first time in six years he ever went this long without a
drink. We were shipped down with McKees Rocks, McKeesport and Pittsburg
and talk about roughnecks they are dandies. I have seen all the Scottdale
boys and they all want us in their company. Tomorrow we parade for Mayor
Babcock. If you read the Camp Lee news in the paper you will know more
than we do about this place because that is where we get our news. Sixty
thousand here, you know.
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