Letter to Mother from Somewhere in France
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S.W. in France
9-17-17
Dear Mother:–
This has been another good day, there is a few clouds coming up now, I have been out here on on the grass for a cupple of hours reading and now I will write you a few lines before I go in. Well old Stanley Deason was lucky he lost a foot so he is done with this war he has paid his share of the price if I come thru I will try to get him a starte in life on a homestead or somewhere, he is engaged to a school teacher he is as fine a boy as ever could walk. Bob McKeith went on down to the base. Stanley was over here about eight months before he was hit
I washed three pairs of socks this afternoon. I have six pair of sock five have never had a hole in at all the other pair I never I have had all summer the first pair you knit me I think one got a little hole in and I never mended it at all yet I have never woren it.
I ran across a few lines tonight as I read that express what I have tried to impress on manys the man in other words since I enlisted “Our happiness depends on the mind that is with in us and not on the circumstances which are without us. Now don’t say, well to a certain extent I tell you to an entire extent.
When I tell you that I enjoy every minuit of life here, why that is what I mean, but there is men go side by side with me that never enjoy 10% of the time They will wake up some a.m. and see what they missed that I enjoyed. Well goodnight Mother dear 1st cor 15th
as ever your loving son Laurie