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Le Mans.
Softy or not -- I got a lump in my throat when I shook hands with a lot of the men of the 22nd and said so long to Les Egbert, Don Piersons Dell Harden and [[Pyn?]]..... They're gone 5-2-19

I've a new home. Hut #4 up among the "400" on the hill. And I've the best place of all for behold: my window commands the whole sweep of the camp and flying field north to my beloved monts at Toul. The heights of the Vosges which extend north clear to Stenay run over to the left and the plain is to the right. With my Mont St. Michel that we used to bump into taking off from this Toul aerodrome standing out to the right in the middle distance.
[[image: sketch diagram of hills coming down to a plain (or river?) and two bumps in the distance!]] Towns nestled all about the hills.