Letter 1 - Jun 2, 1918

Letter to Mrs. J. J. Thompson
Sedona, AZ    

Postmarked June 3, 1918

June 2, 1918
Training Camp
Company 2
Camp Cody, NM

Dear Mother

I have been here a week.  There is about eight thousand men in the camp.  Now it is awful hot and windy here in the day time and cold at nights.  They march us to the moving picture show on Friday night and Sunday School on Sunday.  We left Flagstaff the morning of the 26 and was here on the morning of the 27.  We was about 24 hours coming down here.  We can get candy and ice cream and stuff like here to eat.  It will be about three weeks before we can go down town. 

We drill here about six hours a day.  Out of the bunch of men from Coconino county there was thirteen men turn down here.  Wright Clark was one of them.  When we go to eat here we have to take our dishes in our hands and line up in the street in two rows and march in to the boarding house one line on each side of the house and when you get done eating you come out the other end of the house and line up in rows and wait for your turn to wash your dishes. 

Well I wood like it here pretty well if it was not for the sand and wind.  The wind blows sand here some days till you can’t hardly see.  Well I am getting along fine and I hope this will find you all the same. 

Well as I don’t know any thing more to write I will close.

From your loving son,

James Thompson