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Dear Dad;
Another day and I’m very tired but still in good shape. I hear you had
very good luck with Mr. Robbins petition. He’ll probably have a walk away
this time. We drilled all day just the same as usual & I'd rather be out
in the sunshine doing that than penned up in here. I am getting the use of
my right arm back for the first time since I arrived here & am just fine
physically. As you know this crowd we are in with is not the most choice &
I sometimes pity Albert because the talk in here gets very profane at
times & that is of course very hard for him. He is surely a good boy &
also a splendid example for the rest. He's been a good friend to me since
we came down. I thot (sic) when he got up to headquarters he would get
better association but he said the profanity was even worse among the
officers than the men. I don't mind it because I've been more or less used
to it than he. Some of these fellows are sure homesick. I had to laugh out
on the field today, one fellow was lying beside me & was so disgusted he
said that if he could press a button & kill every living thing in Europe,
including all nations, he'd do it. I asked him if he included Pershing’s
army in that & he replied , ' You're damn right!' . I haven't fallen off
in my ardor yet & am just as anxious to go on as ever. Albert let me read
Dr. Terbushes letter & I'll say that old boy can write a letter. I want
you to know that I’m in the best of spirits & don't need a thing & with
my best love to Mother and all the rest I'm still
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