1918 LETTER #7:

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LETTER SUMMARY:

-- Leave canceled due to the BOCHE DRIVE and sent back to The Front

-- OUTPOSTS OUT IN NO MAN'S LAND, they call SACRIFICE POSTS

-- Going "Cootie hunting."

-- Correspondence, packages, mail, tobacco, dentistry & much, much more

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SOME EXCERPTS FROM THIS LETTER:

4 pages, pencil

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

April 14 1918

Priv. H. W. Chapman
Co D 101 US Eng
A.E.F.

Dear Ma and Pa,

Rec'd box containing Cocoa, Chocolate, Sugar, Milk, Cake, etc . . . Don't send any more socks . . . Send handkerchiefs (gun wipers)
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Have been at the front since the 1st of Feb with the exception of three days at a rest camp. We were to get our leave of ten days then but those have been indefinitely postponed probably due to the BOCHE DRIVE and we were brought back to the front again
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I met a fellow named Kennedy who went to school with us and . . . he was leaving for his hitch up in the ditch. He's on what they call a "chow chow" run(?). These men go ON OUTPOST OUT IN NO MAN'S LAND. They are what they call SACRIFICE POSTS
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We have not been allowed to write . . . I think you are a little lax in writing . . . Your letters read as though you were afraid they were censored. Your mail is not censored and would like to have you write about what you know about us.

DO NOT subscribe to any tobacco fund "Charity starts at home" send it direct.

Am writing Pete today also. Will stop now as I am going "Cootie hunting."
With love
Bootus

[Censor's script passing letter]

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