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Thomas W. Messenger correspondence, 1917
1917-12-11 Thomas Messenger to Mrs. N.H. Messenger Page 3
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a while. But he's back in camp now and feeling better. We organized a second team in football and have played a couple of games with the first team. Of course they beat us but what else could be expected. I play left end. We played the second game this afternoon. All of us went out to drill and about two oclock the two teams came in. We did quite a bit better than before but I expect I'll be a little stiff in the morning. I lost about a half inch of skin right off the end of my nose some way. And gee, maybe you think I'm not a pretty looking picture. Didn't hurt a bit and I didn't know it until some one told me. I guess we are going to play Company B of this battalion some time in the near future. They haven't any team
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a while. But he's back in camp now and feeling better. We organized a second team in football and have played a couple of games with the first team. Of course they beat us but what else could be expected. I play left end. We played the second game this afternoon. All of us went out to drill and about two oclock the two teams came in. We did quite a bit better than before but I expect I'll be a little stiff in the morning. I lost about a half inch of skin right off the end of my nose some way. And gee, maybe you think I'm not a pretty looking picture. Didn't hurt a bit and I didn't know it until some one told me. I guess we are going to play Company B of this battalion some time in the near future. They haven't any team
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