Plattsmouth Journal, February 24, 1919 [from] Boullionville, France, Dec. 11. Dear Sister Edythe: Received your and mother�s letter the other day and as it is raining and no place to go will try and drop you a few lines. We are now ready to take a vacation. We have started twice and they canceled it, so we are still living in hopes of going. There are 28 of us out of our company scheduled to go at one time. Well, Sis, I sure would have liked to been in the state and saw the excitement, but in another way would not take anything in the world for the experience that I have had and the things I have seen. But so far as we boys celebrating when the armistice was signed, why there was nothing to it. The only difference was in the noise from the guns, as everything was quiet and the boys could walk up and down the road without keeping close to cover. But I suppose that away from the front they had a big time. But as you know when a bunch of men lay in the trenches all the way from thirty to sixty days it does not make much difference. We had been in the trenches 37 days and when the armistice was signed we were in the woods near Fay-an-Hay. But we were all around between Fay-an-Hay, Pon-a-Mousson and also the St. Marie farm. We are now in billet that the Germans built along the side of a hill so were are living like humans instead of living in dugouts 45 feet under the ground. But I think I heard as many G.I. cans or big six shells as any of the rest. We headed the third army into Metz. Well, Sis, I suppose that it will be some time before I will get to come back again, as we have been drawn in the army that will proceed to German, so I presume that then next letter you receive from me after I return from my furlough will be mailed inside of German soil. Well, will close, as they are calling us out again to proceed on our furlough. With love, from your brother. ERNEST F. WALLENGREN. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com