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Somewhere In America July 5, 1917
Dear Ma:
Well. Ma we are camped on the shore of another beautiful lake. I can't tell you where it is or how long we expect to stay here. After three days in a cramped train this sure is fine. When we got off we pitched tents and all went in swimming. I sure was dirty from the traveling, and after I took a good bath and a swim I felt like a new man. This country here is fine just as we went to eat a thunder and lightning storm started and we stood in the rain eating. It doesn't rain here it just drops a whole lake on top of you at one time.
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But everybody took it good naturedly and laughed and joked even if they were wet to the skin. It saved us one job, we didn't have to wash our mess kits all we had to do was to hold them out in the rain and in half a minute they were clean. It was funny though to watch some of the tents go up in the air. Just about the time they thought they had the stakes in good and solid, the wind would blow a little harder and up would go their tents. By the time they got their tents up again their things were soaked through. But after we got everything fixed up good and we wormed our way into our
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tents we slept like bugs in a rug. I didn't wake up once from nine at night untill five thirty in the morning. We can't kick about the weather this morning it sure is fine, so I will have to close now and go in swimming.
Love to all.
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American Lake July 8, 1917
Dear Ma:
Just a line to answer a few questions. About going swimming we go in swimming every day at 4 o'clock. It is twelve miles to Tacoma we can either go by street car or auto. It is 15 cents each way on the car and 25 cents on an auto. We get milk in our coffee but the coffee isn't any good, we get all the sugar we want, we get butter about every other day. Ans to letter number two. I don't think we will leave as soon as we thought, they are starting things here now that will take quite a while to learn. I will have to get in and work my head off from now on. I went to Tacoma last night to dance, it took the last of my money, we didn't get paid yet. I went to church this morning they had it in the Y.M.C.A. tent. There is to be mass held there every Sunday at 9:o'clock, there is