Letter 8 - July 31, 1918

Letter #8 addressed to Mrs. Maggie Thompson

Sedona, AZ     Postmarked August 1, 1918

Co B 134 Inf

Camp Cody NM

July 31, 1918

Dear Mother,

I will write a few lines today.  I haven’t had any letters for over a week now but I guess there is some on the road somewhere.  There was two French officers drowned in a river somewhere around here and they are to be buried today so the Captain said we wouldn’t drill today that we could go to the funeral if we wanted to but none of us went and there won’t be any mail today on account of the funeral and we go to the range this evening so we won’t get any more mail until tomorrow evening when we come back so I thought I would write a little as I think it has been over a week since I wrote before.  There has been talk of us leaving here for some time now but I don’t know whether there is anything to it or not.  I think though we will go to some other state before long.  I hope so anyway since I am this far away I would rather we saw more country than to stay in one place all time.  

I have one of them fine pictures that I want to keep myself so I think I will mail it to you and let you keep it for me.  I think I will be back there before fall.  The Germans are losing every day.  One of our officers said the other day that he thought all of the drafted men would be home within sixty days.  Well I will write again when I get your letter.  There ought to be some here when I get back to (unclear – in margin…)

As ever, C S T