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ON ACTIVE SERVICE
with the
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

AMERICAN Y.M.C.A.

Aug. 9, 1918.

Dear Father & Mother and all
I will now take the pleasure to drop you's a few lines to let you's [sic] know I am well and hope these 
few lines reach you's enjoying the same.

The rest of the Boys are playing cards and enjoying themselves I have been pretty busy this afternoon 
cleaning up my rifle and shoving I think I will go up to the Y and get some cakes and see what there is 
doing tonight. last night our Band gave a nice concert there was as many French soldiers in the crowd 
as there were American the Band Boys play in front of an old stone house where two old couple line they 
certainly emjoy our American music. There is a band concert almost every night I am intending to go

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again tonight.

The country surrounding our camp here is full of wheat fields, they have cut the wheat and it is in the 
shock's it looks like the country around home.

There was a Scotch comedian in our camp last night he was dressed in kilts and was very entertaining I 
don't know whether he was a Scotch soldier or whether his business was to entertain soldiers anyhow he 
was great at making us laugh.

I like it here just as well as I did in the States only we have a hard time to make the French 
understand us but we have a golly time and plenty to eat.

Well I guess I will close for this time as I want to write a few lines to Johnny.
Bye Bye xxxxx From Your Loving Son Francis McCabe

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Pvt. F. McCabe
Co. K 4th
A.E.F.
USTNF.

Mrs. Mary McCabe
R.F.D.W.I.
Novinger, Mo.
U.S.A.

AMERICAN Y.M.C.A.

RECD FROM ARMY
10 AM
SEP 2
1918
BORDEAUS

[illegible postmark]

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