nothing because if
looking at a lot of fake pictures makes the boys work harder the sooner
we will get sent to France.

I was just talking to Red Sampson and he was telling me about a bird
named Chambers in Co. A and it shows some people don't know when they
have got a good thing and don't appreciate what people trys to do for
them. I remember this bird comeing out with us on the train and they
wouldn't nobody go near him on acct. of him being such a bum and Red
says he heard that for a while after we got here they had to chase this
bird under the shower bath with a bayonet and he done most of his
drilling in the guard house. So finely his captain told him he wouldn't
stand for no more of his monkey business and he would call him up in
front of the court marshall if he didn't behave himself.

So then Chambers says all right he would make a new start and sure
enough he cut it all out and begin to take a pride in himself and got
the drills down pat and kept clean and his captain wanted to show him it
payed to be a man and he made a corporal out of him.

Well Al you can't break the rules when you are a corporal no more than a
private but this bird went to Chi the day before yesterday on a leave
and he was supposed to be back at 11 P.M. last night but he
don't show till 2 A.M. and he was all lit up like the City of
Benton Harbor and of course the guard nailed him and he got called up
before his captain and he busted him and I don't mean he cracked him in
the jaw but when a man gets busted in the army it means you get reduced
to a private. So I said to Red what a sucker this bird was and Red says
maybe he wanted to get busted because a corporal has got such a load on
their shoulders that lots of men would rather be a private. So I said it
must be a fine kind of a man that would turn down a job in the army
because it was a tough job and Red says "Yes but everybody ain't like
you and some men don't want no responsibility but you are one of the
kind that the more they have the better they like it and everybody could
see you was a born leader the way you acted in that trench drill today."

So I suppose after all a man like Chambers has no business in a job like
corporal because it is a cinch nobody would ever call him a born leader
unless it was in the gin league but still a person would think he would
try and behave himself after the captain give him that chance but still
I should not worry and it is none of my business and