Feature Letter of February 16th, 2026
Brown, Jack Malcolm
February 16th 1917
My Dear Sister:
Well I am in France at last. I like it a whole lot better here than in England. Spring had started to open up now. the sun shines here nearly every day which makes the air warm. We are sleeping in tents over here, but they are not cold as there are enough in each to keep good and warm. We are training hard here, and we learn as much here in one day as we would learn in a week in England. It is pretty muddy here as the ground is thawing out. We have good instructors here too. They are just out of the trenches so they can give us the real dope. We were through a gas attack today, and it turned our buttons and brass so black that there is no more shining for them.
