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Sergeant Robert Kennet Writes to His Father" From France November 24, 19] Dearest Papa: Believe to-day is designated "Dad's Day" for letters, so will 1 the swim and write mine tonight Mail has just come in and I one letter from home with one i Cecil. Frank and Flora T. I guei Wrote you about Charlie a days ago but have not been ab! find out anything since writing. I: he has turned up by now or if captured. Have been trying to out the boy who went out with the night he was lost. Seems as ii and another boy had gone out tb ry rations to the company and lost out in No Man's Land. Fritz s discovered them and began to di at them with machine guns. The < poral with Charlie dropped to ground and crawled back. They hi not seen or heard anything of 1 since. From last reports they bad found his body, so naturally COMI ed that lie was captured. Loo*ks-'-as he would have turned up by now he was captured as prisoners are 1 , ing returned daily to the Allies.fn . Germany. In ca?e he was killed, could not have been killed doing better work, he simply made the s preme sacrifice and helped to ma things as they now are. Hope turns up though. Was very muchly surprised learn of the death of Earl Crouc Guess it was pretty hard for his wit You folks back home evidently ca not stand as much as -we can. \\ have had several cases of '"flu" Li none amounted to anything. Had very light attack of it myself aboi three weeks ago. Had fever of IC one night. Got over mine in a fe -days and feel as weil now as ever. Guess Charles and Frank are di: appointed that they did not get chance to come across and do thei bit for Jerry. Am glad in a way tho their chance is gone but sorry the did not come over. They would hav enjoyed the trip and Would have seei lots. Would not take anything fo what I have seen, done and where -have been, still I do not want to gi through with it again. Our first experience was at Nar dasque, France. We saw a little ail "battle. July 4 t?i we hiked about 20 mile; and landed at Waton, Belgium, just n few miles from Ypres. There is where we got our first baptism of fire from Jerry. He used to shell tin- place every day. Would go in the to wn' af terward and see the damage he had done. Want in as soon as Sgt. Sum mers of Orangeburg was killed. Have a piece of shrapnel or shell that hit the hut in which 1 was staying. This piece fell abo-.d three feel from me. Had thc thing lui me on the head, I doubt if I would be writing this let ter tonight. ?Fritz gave us hell while we were up there. We moved from there to St. Pol, France on the Arras front, from there we went to Ru bempre on the St. Quentin front. There is where we did good work and the Thirtieth Division made a name for herself. On this front is where Charlie mot his fate. We took tbs Hindenburg Line at Bellecourt where is reported to be tthe strongest point on the line. There is where the famous Bellicourt Tun nel is si'.uared. The boys tcok it like a top and kept g >ing. September 29th is the day Charlie was missed as well as I can find. Look up the following towns on your map. We took those, Bellicourt, Bohairi, Montbrchain, Brancourt,Busigny and a few other hr. places. At Belli court is where Fritz has one of his vats where he boiled his own men to get fat. That was a gruesome siu'ht. One meal in Motbrehain, we ate with Jerry dead all around us. There was a "bust" of a dea l Jerry just a few feet away from us and we sitting there eating away just as if nothing had happened. Such sights as these are very common. We camped at Roesel for a few days, right at Roeb heod. After we moved out the entire thing blew up. Jerry had planted an acid mine thore. We were lucky iu that respect. Several places- we pass ed over or were just coming to and they were blown up. Jerry is on the job when it conies to things like that. Gee, the Germans pull some rough deals. There is nothing he will not do. People blame tho Ktiiver but I blams the people. Believe Ino ii.dividual mind is worse than the mob. The work of the mob is always concocted in the mind of the individual, ctnse quently the individual mind is far worse. When he gets into the mob his actions are always less than those concocted in his mind. The Sammies of the Thirtieth Division were too much for him. On this front we ad vanced about 20 miles. On one drive we went 32 kilometres which is 20 miles. Then we pulled out for a couple of days to reorganize and went back after him. He sure got his dose from the boys of South Carolina North Carolina and Tennessee. They were on the job and gave him worse than he could stand. Stood on the hill near Trescourl and watched the bat tle through a pair of Held glasses. Wish you could have seen it."Every thing was going just right. We put up an eight foot barrage. Nothing can live in a barrage like that except when in ? deep dugout. The Hindenburg Line locked im pregnable and had I seen it before we took it, would have sworn it was strtcide to even attempt it. That drive hit Us pretty hard, out of my little eleven men, only four came back. The rest were injured and evacuated to the Hospital. Capt. Roy was killed in this stunt also; He was a good man and very popular wich the men. He was struck by a piece of shell and tiled a few hours after. Even after he was wound ed he went on dressing the wounded. He worked until he could not work any longer. Sure hated.to learn of h's death. The government and coun try lost a good citizen and man. The big man behind thc guns was Marshal Foch, the real Napoleon. The Kaiser was the "tin'pot Napoleon." Foch is the greatest military man or genius of any age: The old military g< muses were not in his class. He planned an attack just north of .Metz that had it been suc-ees?ful, would have resulted in tho capture of the entire German army, numbering 1,S000,000. There is no reason why it would not have been successful. Germany would have had to capitu late in short time if she had not sign ed the Armistice. They were far! worse than we thought they were, Foch did not give them any rest by his constant biows. He kepi a.drive on in o/,e of his sectors all th?* time. lie is a genius in that line. War is over now and I hope it will not be long before we will get back tome. We hear all sorts of rumors ts to when we are to go hOmeSHere's toping to be with you_soon. Lots of love and kisses to the best laddy ever. Lovingly, Robert When the wild plum blossoms in tlie lune 'Tis time for dulcet laughter ami re na in. Time for airy fairy dreaming! wiiis pered low By the woodland pixy people as we po. Tim.' in loiter and make gla<] amona tho flowers Oh. it is a heartsomo plate, this world of ours. ?iud nuts chop aml mixed with salad dressing good sandwich DISHES DAINTY_ANn AsnrT,.-^ Hot fried sardines served on a lied of water cress make a nico way of serving thes? small tid bits. Celery ped tino a little make a filling. Chopped apples, a few nuts and a chopped green pepper make a ?nos! delicious salad combination; servo with may onnaise. * Cheese and Tomatoes.-('in round slices of bread, toast brown and on each found place n slice of tomato, sprinkle with a little mine d onion anti green pepper, a dash of cayenne und a thick layer of grated cheese. L'tlt imo t! ? broiler and sot under tho gas flame until tito cheese melts. Serve piping hot. Peanut Butter With Rice.-Ta ko two cupfuls of well cooked rice; while bot stir in a cupful bf peanul butter, n cup ful ef oracker crumbs, a half cupful of milk, two beaten oges and salt and paprika to taste. 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