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HARRY LAGUE IS EXPECTING TO BE HOME SOONHarry LaOue, a wagoner with the A,. F. F. writes from France savins’ that he expects to be back in America in a short time. He comments briefly on the conditions at Brest, What he seems to desire most of all is a piece of home-made pie. The letter follows:Brest, France, Feb. 23, 1919. Dear Mother and All:T will write you a few lines to let you know that I am still anion? the living. I have been here about ten days now. We are working nights with trucks, helping to repair this camp: it’s not a very healthy place. T suppose you have read about it in the papers. We are here until the rest of the division arrives which I hope is not very long.It ?*ains every day but we are now fixed for it as we have hip boots, rain hat and a suit of rubber which keeps us dry.How is everything in Fowler by this time? The boys ought to be nearly all back by the time I get home. Ask Savage how he would like to drive a Liberty truck. They sure are powerful, have a 48 horse engine in them. I would like to get back by Faster but don’t know if I will make it or not. This is a very large camp, about 20,000 soldiers here. We are staying in the old stone barracks that Napoleon had.We can see a few old chateaux that were built in the thirteenth century.We drove trucks through from Le-mans to Brest, about 300 miles: stopped in some very large cities, such as Morlaix, LaVale, Rennes. A person can see traveling through, the different classes of people and their way of living. I can tell you a few things when I get back better than I can had any pie since I left Fowler. Don’t write them.Just have a good chicken dinner and cream pie when I get there. I haven’t worry, Pll be there one of these days. Your son,H. C. LaOue.tei coviithor bu an ins th oti ne ba us fu
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Fowler Benton Review
Fowler, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 20, 1919
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