WJ ttitne Viccifiia-'gy Hagen '-if Q.-fi? ,A-4 iifgi, if 2 ext mg outh High at The Front WITH THE STARS AND STRIPES AT VERDUN SOMEWHERE IN I-'R,xNt:i1, November 21, I9l8. Dear Dadf You know that we are supposed to write our dads a Xmas letter, so, altho I wrote yesterday, will drop a few lines again. Got a lot of new equipment yesterday, as we are ex- pecting to leave this place in the morning. We are to be paid about ten dollars this afternoon, and yours truly can use it, as my other disappeared rather quickly. In the papers was an article telling us to write all about our experiences over here. You know that would take me about a year, however. As our letters are not censored, I can tell a few things about the last scrap I was in. After leaving the hospital in August, I went to Eu, from there to Rouen, and then spent a few hours in Paris. From there I went to Is-Sur-Til, where I spent a week ' before going to Bains-Les-Bains, an inland town near Epinal. I stayed there about a week, eight of us were staying with an old French couple. l had a good time there, went up into the hills nearly every day, picking berries, plums, etc. From Bains-Les-Bains I went to Remiremont, there taking a train something like the one at Wonclerlalitl to Cerardmer. We left there in trucks. which drove us over the mountains to Kruth. Then we .walked into the mountains to a camp where our regiment was. Our company had just come out of the trenches. We lost two men and four or hve wounded. After a ten days' stay, we packed up and started toward Verdun, walking, riding trucks and trains until we went into camp in the woods, as reserves in the St. lVlihiel drive. It was on this trip that we walked for eight and one-half hours in a clownpour of rain, and it was so dark that you couldn't see the man directly in front of you. I didn't take my pack off or sit down once in the whole time. Most of the time we walked in single file and in mud and water that reached half-way to our knees. Well, it all ended in our going up to the line near Verdun about the 25th of September. Five-thirty Thursday morning, September 26, we started over the top. Iwas acting as runner,', and was required to deliver the captains 16
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