France, July 16 – 1918

 

Dear Mother,

 

            Time goes by so quickly that it seems as if I wrote a letter home two or three days ago, but I find that is six days since I wrote.  I have been expecting some mail but the only letter I received was from Ed and that was sent two months ago.

 

            We have had rain pretty near every day in the [last] ten days. It rained quite a bit this morning so it is rather muddy and slippery.

 

            Everything is pretty quiet right at the present.  I saw a German airship attack one of our balloons and set fire to it.  The men in the balloon came down in parachutes.

 

            I cannot see how it is that you have not received any letters from me.  Some of them must have arrived by this time.  One or two may have gone down with some ship that was sunk.

 

            I am feeling fine and I hope everybody at home are feeling the same.  There is nothing new to write about so it is very hard to write a letter.

 

I would like to see a good game of ball as I have not seen any since we left Camp Logan.

 

            Well this will be all this time and I hope I have more to write about next time.

 

                                                            Love to all

                                                                        Theo

 

Pvt. T. F. Thourson 1,390,312

Co. A, 132^nd Inf.

American EF

 

(Received 8/5/18)