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d; Give my rcgtmla ami bent wiahe#' If p to all I know. Ju.lGEO CORCORAN ON THE MARCH f JO GERMANYSomewhere in Belgium, Nov. 19, 1918. Dear Friend Mr. Stoats:Junt a line to you os I received the Keporter this p. m., anlt;l sure was glad to receive it. 1 have been in France for the last three months and rather liked it. I have seen a little of the fighting but nothing to talk I about. 1 put a week in the hospitalI Alt HAAAHnl /kf l| lfKaVI fevkltlli n*. (ftAI'on account of a shell dropping too close to this laddie which gave rnc a slight touch of shell shock, but am ' O. K. now.j! 1 have not seen any of the I). G. 4 boys but there are quite a few boys from Chicago where we are now on a (' little inarch to Germany, which is ^. sons* distance from where we are now, ( but I guess we will get there.11 I have not seen a railroad for such ja long time that 1 forget how one , looks. Besides the railroads they have over here are like a wheelbarrow on rails and as for riding they are worm* k than a Ford car.I I Just, found now from a Sergeant that we are permitted to let the people at home know where we are, so here | goes, Wasmer, Belgium, but we are , leaving this town tomorrow. I suppose it will be sometime after msl night as they are hard as ever on tin* 'marching stuff.I Well, I wished many a night while I have been in Frmtfro ami up lb* lino that I was hack in degr old II. G. but a» the war is now over they ran hold me for only six months so that means I will be* back in Downer* Grove In April or May ami can hardly wait until that time comes.Well, the oM front line is not as much of an enjoyable place as one wood think It would be. not when old Jerry opens up on you with two or three machine guns He sanr ran do some damage and as for shelling u « there is not much to it, only lie has 'some very wicked shells which have so many names that 1 can't count them. The fighting of late has not been like some of the boy* have gene 'through. The fighting on our front was chasing Jerry from House to house and getting a shaft*at hyo wfer/) you could. He certainty naa done some damage in France, hut here In Belgium where aw are you could not tell there had been a uar on xa far as the houses are concerned.It ts just $:3® here ami the btip.V has jt*1*! blown *,tnp'ir which meno* lights out .so will say good hye f«*iwlllflnofi.on.HOhrmifowconpctriGUMdii;prOrKtkeoftvthlt;faitinbo.HowuStitcntinintinflufrlterDrwa20 • 4totorbnwhhaipmtinthffaHei*othrthis time and write again soon. ^Yours truly George It lt;Vrreran. I*. H. Haw s»mr of 4 hr ho\ s lelte-s in the Reporter so I thought I would have t«» keep up my « ml ami vi»t* too Rest wishes to I hr* Home Giisnk ami the Captain. Tell Him I mad.'* n soldierstranamhmsixII.©wIni
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Downers Grove Reporter
Downers Grove, Illinois, US
Fri, Dec 27, 1918
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