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Feb. 1, 1919.

Dear Fauna,

I aint no casualty - never was. If you
accumulated the idea - as you apparently did -
from my last letter, then my last letter is an
egregious liar. Sometime in December I left
my little finger in between two barrels for
too long a time - most careless since one
barrel was rolling, but I did no more than
lose a finger nail. Beyond that I haven't had
a danged thing happen.

I wonder if you aren't flying over part
of the country we were operating in. We
advanced on Stenay - our last positions were
at Laneuville-sur-Meuse, and we came up
by way of Romagne, Baintheville, Remonville,
Barricourt, Nouart, Beauclaire, and after the
armistice moved into Cervisy just north of
Stenay.

I was luckyernell to get to the Front
at all. We were in training at Valdahon, when
we heard they were going to quarantine the
place for spinal meningitis. Sans orders, we
moved out, and the quarantine kept us
out. G.H.Q., 6th Division Hqrs., no one knew
a darn thing about us. We just moved up
Front, eased into a National Guard Brigade
which was attached to the 81st Division, and