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Francis McDermott correspondence, June 1917
1917-06-21 Page 1
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Chicago Ill June 21 - 19,17 Dear Mother et all. I never rec. a letter today. I went to the P.O. a dozen times. I am just as [anctus?] to know how you are, every day as you to know how I am. [Illegible] I have been drilling all day with our packs which waighs about fifty lbs. Some of the guyes that have always been used to pushing a pencil is about all in, there feet are blistered. But I just came from washing up, and am feeling fine, it doesn't bother me at all. We had a wrastling match last night, a fellow in Co. F. threw a fellow from Co. B. So after the match I wrastled [Fox?] he's from [Mo. V.?] I threw him, they think I am there, so I gess I half to train up to dump the guy in Co. F. I think I can do it now, he has wrastled some but so have I, he's just a little heaver than I but older. I am
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Chicago Ill June 21 - 19,17 Dear Mother et all. I never rec. a letter today. I went to the P.O. a dozen times. I am just as [anctus?] to know how you are, every day as you to know how I am. [Illegible] I have been drilling all day with our packs which waighs about fifty lbs. Some of the guyes that have always been used to pushing a pencil is about all in, there feet are blistered. But I just came from washing up, and am feeling fine, it doesn't bother me at all. We had a wrastling match last night, a fellow in Co. F. threw a fellow from Co. B. So after the match I wrastled [Fox?] he's from [Mo. V.?] I threw him, they think I am there, so I gess I half to train up to dump the guy in Co. F. I think I can do it now, he has wrastled some but so have I, he's just a little heaver than I but older. I am
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