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you all about it, as I know you have stuff in it you will want. I had a notion to take out some of your private papers and pictures and bring them along with me but was afraid I might be a long time in getting home. Some of the boys got home easily right after the armistice but now they are reported to be holding up artillery & infantry observers and make M.P's etc. out of them. So I am waiting to see what breaks.[[strikethrough]] Bob [[/strikethrough]] Bernie, Comey, Wagner, McNulty, Murphy, Powers and several who came after your time are home. Doc Hillbrun and Bill Hogan were sent + to [[Gendrecerent??] for "fraternizing" with German women and we are mostly replacements now. There are left Evans, Bob, Page, Barrows, Wheeler, McCordie, Palmer, Bagby, Hastings, Balfay, Marshall, Ensign [[insert]] Legaitz [[/insert]] and Joe Hall whom you know. Ed Hastings and I are figuring on trying to get home at the first opportunity but that looks about like June to me. We belong to the 7th Corps which has the 89th and 90th Divisions and they are slated to go home in early June. Dont think the squadron has