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Thomas W. Messenger correspondence, January-May 1918

1918-05-25 Thomas Messenger to Mr. & Mrs. N.H. Messenger Page 2

several nice visits with Rev. Smith.
It is getting quite hot down here now. We notice it especially in the mornings about 8 or nine oclock before the wind commences to blow. I don't know which is the worst down here - the sand or the heat. Either is bad enough and we always have them both.
The 133rd and 134th Infantry is leaving now. That is, just the privates. Only a few of the officers and none of the non commissioned officers get to go. The six or seven thousand conscripts that are here now from New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma will take their place.
My, I wish we were going too. I know that we are doing our duty here on the border just the same as if we were in the trenches in France but we enlisted to fight and anyway I can understand why they send the drafted men to France ahead of the volunteers.. It doesnt look right especially when the volunteers all want

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several nice visits with Rev. Smith. It is getting quite hot down here now. We notice it especially in the mornings about 8 or nine oclock before the wind commences to blow. I don't know which is the worst down here - the sand or the heat. Either is bad enough and we always have them both. The 133rd and 134th Infantry is leaving now. That is, just the privates. Only a few of the officers and none of the non commissioned officers get to go. The six or seven thousand conscripts that are here now from New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma will take their place. My, I wish we were going too. I know that we are doing our duty here on the border just the same as if we were in the trenches in France but we enlisted to fight and anyway I can understand why they send the drafted men to France ahead of the volunteers.. It doesnt look right especially when the volunteers all want