The soldier I am speaking of was my mother's first husband from St. Francois County, Missouri: SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT tomorrow while you are sitting in your nice, warm home eating a delicious home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner with your beloved family:“Dearest Darling wife – I was thinking today it has been almost 14 months since I have been home………it is raining here so I am writing in my pup tent………I think I must have pitched it upside down for the water comes inside. I have a little German stove I keep burning to keep it dried out as much as possible…….Honey I got t...he best nights sleep last night that I have had in a long time, I had about 8 or 10 inches of straw with my blankets on it in a building, the first time to sleep last night since I left England……I am beginning to wonder if I will ever get back home again………We had a good dinner yesterday we had turkey. I just wish I could’ve been home to eat it together it would have been much better……….Honey sometimes I wonder if I will ever get back again……..”In the bitter cold of December Sgt. Cecil J. Cash was shot to death & left lying by the roadside after he was captured by Nazis on 17 December 1944 at the Baugnez Crossroads, Belgium.http://www.carrollscorner.net/CarnageAtTheCrossroads.htm  ZIOCK63664 Genealogist, Historian, Author, Servant to 12 spoiled-rotten cats,1 lazy dog, 1 tolerant husband www.carrollscorner.net/ www.youtube.com/Ziock63664 www.facebook.com/197thAntiAirCraftArtillery