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Francis McDermott correspondence, July-December 1917
1917-08-30 Page 1
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Some Where in France August 30.19,17 Dear Mother:- I havent told you much about the trip coming over I was afraid the censor would throw it away, but some of the fellows told about it in there letters and it went bye, so Ill tell you all the Law allows. I felt pretty blue the day we left Chicago, every one was bidding there friends good bye, and they were giving them packages of lunch and cigars, and all I could do was to laugh at the fellows when they kissed there girls good bye, and lots of them hung onto the cars after they started. We had thirteen coaches, every one filled with members of the thirteenth Eng'rs. I was also detailed to life boat 13, and with all the 13 I landed O.K. so it will be hard to make me beleave 13 is a unluckey number. They sure gave us a good sendoff at Chicago, and all the way to N.Y. City when we were pulling into N.Y. the whistles blew and bells rang and it looked as tho every body in the city was at the docks to give us a fair well good bye. The girls gave us several boxes of tobbaco. But it dident last long. Theres is about three in the Regement that has any American tobbaco I got enough to make a cigarett tonight and befor I had it rolled there was six asked me for the buts, we have a tin can nailed up with a signe above it. Drop your buts here. ha. ha. What I mean you have to be on the job to get one or
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Some Where in France August 30.19,17 Dear Mother:- I havent told you much about the trip coming over I was afraid the censor would throw it away, but some of the fellows told about it in there letters and it went bye, so Ill tell you all the Law allows. I felt pretty blue the day we left Chicago, every one was bidding there friends good bye, and they were giving them packages of lunch and cigars, and all I could do was to laugh at the fellows when they kissed there girls good bye, and lots of them hung onto the cars after they started. We had thirteen coaches, every one filled with members of the thirteenth Eng'rs. I was also detailed to life boat 13, and with all the 13 I landed O.K. so it will be hard to make me beleave 13 is a unluckey number. They sure gave us a good sendoff at Chicago, and all the way to N.Y. City when we were pulling into N.Y. the whistles blew and bells rang and it looked as tho every body in the city was at the docks to give us a fair well good bye. The girls gave us several boxes of tobbaco. But it dident last long. Theres is about three in the Regement that has any American tobbaco I got enough to make a cigarett tonight and befor I had it rolled there was six asked me for the buts, we have a tin can nailed up with a signe above it. Drop your buts here. ha. ha. What I mean you have to be on the job to get one or
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