1917 LETTER #2:

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LETTER SUMMARY:

(Information from attached white index card:)
"In a Village behind the lines, building barracks for the Rainbow 42nd Div H.Q."

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SOME EXCERPTS FROM THIS LETTER:

2 pages, pencil

Y.M.C.A. (A.E.F.) Letterhead

Nov 20 1917

Dear Ma & Pa,
[...]

We cannot write about conditions so you will have to stretch your imagination alot along the lines we write.

Don't let Pete let this draft question slide along. Make him go out and get something out of it. I ADVISE HIM TO GO INTO AVIATION where he gets a rating or reasonably sure of a commission before coming across in some branch.

There is hardly a chance of advancement here except by depletion so will leave it to you to get bossy about the advice about which I can write very little of.

Mil and I are both well. We are attached temporarily to Gen. Pershing's headquarters.
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With love
Bootus

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