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Saturday
My dear Emma and children, for five days with out any aid given to them from the Germans many Americans were with them.  they suffered very much. Six Americans that were in this group came to this Hospitel. Two of them have since died. they had contracted phenomia from their exposure and the Bosch doing nothing for them. one German boy from Cincinnati was brought in day before yesterday. he and five brothers had left home [[strikethrough]] to f[[/strikethrough]] and joined the army & navy against the wishs of there [[their]] father. he said his father was a good American but did not like the idea of his sons killing probely their own relatives. Well this young chap was wounded [[strikethrough]] Thursday [[/strikethough]] Monday. he lade [[laid]] in the field 2 days then crawled towards the American line. when he got to the Marne he cralled [[crawled]] on a raft and when about half way accross [[across]] two french men saw him. they got a roap [[rope]] and he said beliave me! the frenches put the cowboy throwing the roap. they threwgt [[threw]] it right over me and pulled me accross. Then he had to walk 7 killometers [[kilometers]] before he got first aid. he is doing very well. heis young and strong and can stand a lot. The youth of our army will keep our numbers very high in the recovery of wonded. Not so much with the English & french. There armeys [[armys]] have a micture of old [[?]] old one and quite young. the old fellows do not last long. The boy no matter how bad he is wonded he is quite proud of what he has done and like to tell his story and of cors [[course]] we in corrage [[encourage]] it. To help him forget his suffering but the older men they have alredy suffered much and they think of there familes and of cors [[course]] what