CAMP LOGAN, Jan. 5.

_FRIEND AL:_ Well Al this may be the last time you will ever hear from me or at least for a long time and maybe never. I"m going over there old pal and something tells me I won"t never come back.

I can"t tell you what I am going with or when we go or where we sail from because they won"t leave us give out none of that dope and all as I can say is that about 30 of us has been picked to fill up a unit and we leave here tomorrow and meet them at the place where we sail from. Well Al its a big honor to be 1 of the men picked and it means they have got a lot of confidence in me and you can bet they are not sending no riff and raff over there but just picked men and I will show them they didn"t make no mistake in choosing me.

But its mighty tough to leave Florrie and little Al and I thought Florrie would break her heart when I told her and no wonder. But when its a question of duty I am not the kind that would back out and Florrie wouldn"t want me to but its hard all the same.

Well Al I can"t waist no more time writeing to you and I am going to meet Florrie in Houston in a little while and it may be for the last time so I will say good bye to you now and say good bye to Bertha for me and she ought to be thankful she has got a husband that stayed at home and didn"t enlist. And if we have good luck and nothing happens to us I will write you once in a while from the other side.

Your pal, JACK.