France Oct 2 – 1918

 

Dear Mother:

 

            Well I am up and around again.  I received new clothes yesterday and I got up today feeling fine.  My wound is getting along fine.  My jaw is still a little bit sore and I can not open my mouth all the way yet but it does not stop me from eating all I can get

 

            It certainly looks like Germany’s finish[ed] pretty soon.  They are getting beat all along the line.  I do not know how many men in my company were hit.  I did not see anybody hit.  There are about six more here in the hospital with me.

 

            We are treated fine.  I have been on what is called light diet and this morning we had boiled eggs.  It was the first time I have had boiled eggs since we left the States.

 

            The people around this part of the country raise mostly grapes and the vines are certainly filled.  I just had some a few minutes ago and they were fine.

 

            I was certainly a tough looking piece of humanity the last couple of [days] as I had a weeks growth of beard.  I got shaved today so I look a good deal better.  There is still quite [a bit] left on the right side of my face as that side is bandaged yet.

 

            I think I will be out of here by next week so you might as well address my letters the same as usual.  If everything goes the way it has the last couple of weeks of the war may end sooner than we expect.  It may end as suddenly as it started.  I hope you are all as well [as] you can be and as well as I am outside of this wound of mine.  Well this is all the news I have to write about this time.

 

                                                            Love to all

                                                                        Theo

 

Pvt TF Thourson 1390312

Co A 132^nd Inf

American EF

 

(Received 11/25/18)