Letter #25

France Oct 9 – 1918

 

Dear Anna:

 

            I am still in the hospital but I am feeling fine.  They have taken the bandage off the wound and it is pretty near healed.  The only thing that bothers [me] is that I can not open my mouth very much and my jaw is still pretty sore.  I have not received any mail since I have been here.  I expect that I will be out of here in a few days.  I do not know where I will go from here but I suppose I will be back in the company inside of two weeks.

 

            There is not very much to write about as there is not much of anything going on here.  I play cards with Winge and some of the fellows every day. We generally play sixty-six.  Winge has a pretty bad eye.  He has a cataract and has to be operated on.  There is quite a number of fellows here with eye trouble.

 

            The German army will soon be in Germany if they keep on retreating and if they [are] back there the war will soon be over.  There are a lot of rumors of peace talk over here.  We all hope it is true because we do not like the idea of spending the winter in the trenches.  Well this is all I can write as it is all the paper I have.

 

                                                            Love to all

                                                                        Theo

 

Pvt TF Thourson 1390312

Co A.  132^nd Inf

American EF           

(Censors signature)

RE Davis