Beaune France Dec 2 – 18
Dear Mabel
I have received your letters of Oct 21st & 28th and Nov 6th and Anna’s letter of Oct 22nd. Your Thanksgiving card I received on Thanksgiving Day. I am still at the convalescence camp and I am feeling fine although I am not able to open my mouth very much. I also received a letter from Aunt Anna and she says that Ray is a good deal better.
I was in the trenches at Verdun when the St. Mihiel drive was going on.
We did not get any turkey this year but I understand that the meat we had was veal but you cannot prove it by me because it did not taste [like] veal to me. We had all we wanted to eat. We even had cake which was the first I have had in France.
I have received all of the clippings you have sent me but have not received any more papers or packages. I am beginning to think the fellows in the company are getting the candy. Well they need it more than I do.
I received a Thanksgiving card from the Cooks yesterday and I also received a letter from Ed from New York.
Winge’s name is Frank and I think he is on his way home by this time.
We are having nice weather again but it is still muddy under foot. We were out for a hike this morning. It was the first time we had been out for several days. I hope I get away from here soon and get back to the company. I have not heard how the rest of the fellows came out but I have been told that there is an entire new bunch of fellows in the company. They were at Camp Custer during their training period.
About all I do here besides going out on hikes is reading and playing checkers. There are some good players here and we have some good games.
Well this is all the news I have to tell. Hoping you [are] all well I will close with
Love to all
Theo
Pvt TF Thourson
Co. A. 132nd Inf 1390312
American EF
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