Feb 6 1919

 

10-am                                                                                Feb 6 1919

                                                                                    Leffol Le Grand France

Dear Honey

    I received the magazine on Tuesday feb 4 and was indeed glad to get them.  I had intended to write, but in the morning I had a big washing to do and in the afternoon I started to read.  I staid in the car all afternoon and evening as we are not allowed to leave camp.  Gee if this kind of life keep up and from what I heard, we are in for many more months of camp life in France maybe 6 or 8 months.  God only know what will happen if we stay here that long.  The longer I stay here the more disgusted I get and I don't care what happened to me.  Just like the song "I wish I could sleep until my daddy comes here"  I would like to sleep until they took me home or else I might go nutty, but I will just have to have patience and wait-wait until the day when we could leave.  In a few days we will move out of the cars into barracks which are now being built for us in the land of MUD and among the niggers & prisoners at that.  No we are not prisoners.  I read in the Bellevue paper where lots of the boys that went to camp with me were mustered out of service and are home.  The lucky guys sure ought to be glad that they never got over here and go thru what we have went thru.  Also read in the paper where us boys are supposed to get candies in our rations.  We have only had candies once since over here and three little pieces at that.  I would like to write more but I will keep it to myself until I get home.  That is just the way I feel about staying here for a few more months maybe until fall and I don't give a hang what they do with me.  God know that I have enough willpower to stick it thru and I will scrape up enough courage to do it.  This afternoon I will walk over and see our new barracks and I guessed I will have to wear my boots to get there.  They say that peace will not be signed before June or later.  I wished the goodness, they would put a little pep into it and get it thru so that the AEF boys can get back into civilization once more before they croak.  Uncle Sam take good care of us alright that there is no place to go or nothing to do but mope around day after day and get more & more disgusted.  Well honey I expect to get more mail to day as I have not had a letter for a week and it makes me all the more lonely. I hope you will forgive me for writing such a letter but that is the way I have felt for the last few days.  I am not sock at al, never felt better than I do now, but to think of staying here in France for another six month would make anybody feel blue.  I think I will drop a few line to D.R. this afternoon and also to Schaf.  Well close now and take the best care of myself and send all my love and kisses to my lonely little wife

From her lonely Soldier Hubby

                                    Clarence

PS. Keep on writing until you hear from me in the States, maybe Oct or Nov.  If they ask for a speech when I get home, look out for yourself for I will surely explode and cuss.

5PM

Just wrote a letter to Grace and DR.  Was looking at the barracks this afternoon.  They are some barracks.  They said over there that the barracks were for other men, not our, so that kind of cheered me a bit, but you can't tell nothing about it.  Well I will read for a while then go to bed.    Clarence