Letter 99
Dec. 18, 1918
My Dear Sweetheart,
Yes it
is Wednesday night and I’ll bet you can’t guess what I’m doing. Well dear, I’m at an American Y. in Nancy,
France. I’m on a little vacation, and best of all I have Geo. with me. Ah dear,
if you only knew how happy I am to have him with me. I did not know he was
going until this morning. We left Bayonville at 4:30 A.M. and went in trucks to
Pagny Sur Meoselle about 8 kilometers, left there at 8:13 A.M.
We rode
in a German Coach third class. It was some difference between riding in box
cars as have always done since coming to France. We arrived in Nancy at
10:30. After leaving the train we were
directed to a Y. where we bought plenty of cookies, candy, and greens. Besides
that we attained hot cocoa and cookies, and oh how they tasted and melted in
your mouth! The best part of it all, they were served by American girls. Oh what a feeling comes over you when you
talk to them. After that we went into the great bathing pool, one of the largest
in the world of its kind. There we were
given clean clothes, and turned our dirty ones in. That does away with another week’s wash … Ha! Ha!
I
surely thought I was home! Really dear,
I could not think I was in the army to have such treatment. After that we were
entertained again with a movie that put the cream on all of it, for my mind
went back to dear old U.S.A. and I could not say that I was in France. After the movie we left for the train, and
after standing around for 2 hours, we found a lot of the trains did not leave
until tomorrow afternoon. So we are here at the Y again. We have real beds with
white sheets … did you get that…white?! While we were waiting for the train, or after
we found that the train was not going to go until morning, we tried to stay at
the freight house but the French (or Frogs as we call them) made us go out into
the rain. Then is when one thinks of
home and wishes he were there.
But
Providence came to our rescue, and so we are at the Y. There is plenty of writing material, good
books and plenty of music. It costs us
two francs (40 cents) for our bed, 3 francs (60 cents) for our supper, and a
real one at that. The best part of it
all, they served raspberries, my favorite fruit, the first I’ve taste since
leaving home. And I had cream with them,
too. Well dear, I will close for
tonight, for there seems to be so much excitement and things to see. I can hardly sit still long enough for me to
write. We are on a seven day pass and
have so much to see. So you see I will
have plenty of news to tell you. I will
write tomorrow and tell you what we did, so good night, dear. My heart is wishing you good blessings and
love.
Your
waiting sweetheart,
Henry x
x x
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