Letter # 7 Addressed to Mr. J. J. Thompson
Sedona Ariz
Postmarked Aug 5, 1918
Aug 5, 1918
Inf 133 Co. H
Camp Cody, NM
Sedona Ariz
Postmarked Aug 5, 1918
Aug 5, 1918
Inf 133 Co. H
Camp Cody, NM
Dear Mother,
I got out of the hospital the 2 of Aug. I got two letters from you while I was there and I wrote three to you while I was there. There was 70 more soldiers moved into the Co. from the Casual Camp the 2 of the month so there is over 2 hundred here in this Company now. We are out of quarantine now so we can go to town.
I will send you some pictures now. I have had them about three weeks but I was at the hospital and the pictures in the company. I sent Frank and Lizzie one and was going to send you one when I wrote to you again but I went to the hospital before I wrote to you.
I got out of the hospital the 2 of Aug. I got two letters from you while I was there and I wrote three to you while I was there. There was 70 more soldiers moved into the Co. from the Casual Camp the 2 of the month so there is over 2 hundred here in this Company now. We are out of quarantine now so we can go to town.
I will send you some pictures now. I have had them about three weeks but I was at the hospital and the pictures in the company. I sent Frank and Lizzie one and was going to send you one when I wrote to you again but I went to the hospital before I wrote to you.
The first day I
drilled after I got out of the hospital I got awful tired for it was awful hot
and I was weak but I am getting along pretty good again. Now they are drilling us awful hard here now.
There was a train run into an auto in Deming the other night and killed the driver and three soldiers and lightning struck one while I was in the hospital. I am going out to the rifle range the 6th and see what kind of a shot I am. See if I can shoot straight enough to kill Germans.
I sure would like to be home now and get some good meals to eat. Everything they cook here tastes alike. They mix it all up in your plate till I am getting awful sick eating sick junk.
Well as I don’t know any more to write I close for this time hoping to hear from you soon.
Your son,
James Thompson
There was a train run into an auto in Deming the other night and killed the driver and three soldiers and lightning struck one while I was in the hospital. I am going out to the rifle range the 6th and see what kind of a shot I am. See if I can shoot straight enough to kill Germans.
I sure would like to be home now and get some good meals to eat. Everything they cook here tastes alike. They mix it all up in your plate till I am getting awful sick eating sick junk.
Well as I don’t know any more to write I close for this time hoping to hear from you soon.
Your son,
James Thompson
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