FARMINGTON NEWS, Friday, December 27, 1918
Luxemburg, Nov. 25, 1918
Dear Father and Mother:
I will drop you a few lines to let you know that I am well and I hope you are the same.
We are doing lots of hiking. We are now on our way across the Rhine.
I met Ellis in Belgium and I got put in his Co. so we are both together again. We are both
well, so don't worry. The war is finished, but I don't know when we will get back home. I
don't think we will be back before the first of the year.
It is raining today and it is pretty cold. I guess you are having some cool weather at
home.
Ellis just got through writing to you so I thought I would write, too.
The Belgium people sure were glad to see us. They seem to think lots of the Americans.
Ellis and I slept together the first night we met. A Belgium woman gave us a fine bed to
sleep in.
I guess I can get some mail now, because I have an address. Ellis says he never has gotten
any.
I will close and write later.
From your son,
MILTON SIMMS
20th Co. 3rd Bat. 5th Reg., U.S.M.C.
American E. F.
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Mr. Simms also received a short letter from his son, Ellis, in the same mail which brought
the letter from Milton. Ellis said he had been through three pretty tough campaigns, but
had come through without a scratch. He said that Milt had been in the Hospital with the
infuenza, but seemed to be all right again. He said the weather over there had been very
fine for the past two weeks, but it was raining then (Nov. 25th) Mr. Simms is rather
inclined to believe Milton has been wounded and that the boys are writing that he had been
in the Hospital with an attack of influenza in order to keep the folks at home from being
worried about him.
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