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Letter from Edward Lutchinger
GENINDEX BOOK K-L 1900-1949 VOL 1 – PAGE 28
WATERLOO DEM –
EDWARD LUTCHINGER,
who is in France has written the following fine letter to his people
here:
I have received your letters and
also four copies of the Waterloo Democrat.
We just came out from the front lines where we were for two weeks. We are now in the supports and find it is
pretty soft for the boys. We go on guard
at
We are used to Fritz’s shells
now. We can dodge them and we can hit
the dirt pretty quick and not very hard when we see them coming. We can beat any gopher getting into his hole.
There is nothing that you can send
us that we cannot get here. The Red
Cross gives us tobacco and with what old Uncle Sam sends us we are getting
along in fine shape. You might send us
some newspaper.
You must have had a big time there
June 14th. I read the account
in the Democrat. I see also, by that paper that one of the
boys, Jackson Humphrey, has “gone west”.
He took the trip, but that is what we are in the game for – to stay
until it is over or take the same trip.
This is a pretty quiet day. Fritz is not making a move today. It is pretty still. I guess he used up all his ammunition yesterday. He sent over about 200 shells and only one
half of them were any good. I guess they
are about all in, or will be in another few months. A good man can’t even work
with poor tools and Fritz is running out of good men and tools pretty
fast. He cannot stomach the way the
Americans go at it. It is a new game to
them. Their soldiers are getting to be
pretty young kids in there now and they cannot stand the gaff very long. It seems to be a case of hang on as long as
they can. When they break they will
break hard and we will surely get them, maybe this fall. I hope so, My
regards to everybody.
Your
brother,
Edward
Lutchinger