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W. S'unley Diy in France.Less than a year ago “Stan” Day. a student at Syracuse University, enlisted with a general utility unif organised at the University. Brewster friends will he interested in his letter.Somewhefe in France. Mar. 14, 1918 Dear Folks at Home:“Somewhere in France used to be a very popular subject for our dreams, but now it has become a reality. We have talked about it so much and have thought about it a great deal more— and now we have come to realize how very different it all is from what we expected it would be. We are very much surprised and surprised in a favorable way. We embarked from a port in England and arrived at a port in France where we put up for awhile in a rest camp. From there we took a railroad train to our present location. We h^d a tine ride across France— and yesterday we arrived here. This is a base hospital town and the hotels have been taken over by Americans for the use of hospitals. The town in which we are located in a famous watering place and was the rendezvous of traveling foreigners and French nobility, ftis very tine here and we like it already. The hotels are in a fair condition in having been all cleaned up by the men of Base Hospital No. 31. Unit G is extremely fortunate in being put with a group of men such as make up this unit. They are from Youngstown, O. and are a very high class bunch of men. A great many of them are college men, one of whom went to Syracuse for a couple of years. Now I will try and tell you a little of our trip over. We had lots of excitement and it has continued and we hope that it will continue. We had an interesting trip over the Atlantic in a fine boat and landed in England. From that port we traveled across England to our port of eml ?.ri:ment for France. We made that trip at night so v\e know practically nothing of that country. On the train across Fiance we had the pleasure and excitement of passing through a very lively air raid on a French city. We could see and hear the bombs explode. A few of us were on the top of the cars and we had a good view of the show. It was very beautiful and I'll never forget it. I’ll tell you all about it after the war. You should see us eat. We are having great food and lots of it. It is cooked fine and we have agreater variety of food than we had at •either of the two preceding camps we trained at in America. We have fine sleeping quarters too, in an annex to one of the hotels, but they say that these are only temporary and that we are liable to move into a better place It any time. We are satislied with what we have now. it is s« much better than -we expected. I am working at architecture already. I went on the detail •inly the day after I arrived. 1 am withTvoUiCarnegie Teachmei^nd good architects. We are taking care of all the work that comes under the domain of architecture and there is a lot of it to be done yet. The University Ambulance Unit is located near here. I have seen a couple of the men already. It seems like hon\p. There is a Y. M. C. A. within a hundred yards of us and they maintain a writing room only a few steps away, so we'll do a lot of writing. Don’t worry about us. We are bavin everything of the best. We are glad that we are in the fray. Take good carc of yourself. Packages and letters come all o. k. Write often and send me the Standard every week. I’ll do my best to keep you posted.Love to all. STAN.
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Brewster Standard
Brewster, New York, US
Fri, Apr 19, 1918
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