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January 1, 1919

Dear Emma and Children,
Since I wrote you I have finished that fifty mile trip I told you ofand ofcourse it rained all the way and when we arrived we were very wet and very tired. Then the next day we took a trip of fifteen miles to visit three villages where the regiment would be placed. Now the regiment has arrived and has been divided up in three small towns. My Foyer is well started in one and I will start two  others for the rest of the regiment. When they are well started I will visit them every day on horseback. This is a beautiful country around here, but all busch, we are in the middle of this little state. The name of the village i is about a mile long. Yesterday I took a trip to a small town near the German border, it is quite a change to what I have seen from France alll through Belgium run the war zone and Belgium they had nothing in the stores, the Bosches had taken everything but in the town I was in yesterday the Bouches have everything you want. Their stores are stacked with merchandise but at a terrible high price. I hope the Americans will get chicken hearted and send food over they need nothing whatsoever, they are very kind to everybody and give us everything we want, if we have the money. I have had no letter from you for two weeks now. I can understand that because we are lost most of the time and always placed out of the way places. But I do not understand why you do not get my letters. I wish my work were done so i could get home. This work can just as well be done by someone else. It is much colder here, but a little