When I Come Back

Teacher's account of an American soldier who was killed in France. * * * * * An excerpt from the beginning:
One day in October, 1918, an American soldier sat in a "little pit" in a wood, writing a letter home. The principal thesis of his letter was jam, cited as "one of the most vital topics about camp now." There was also a good deal about a cup of apple sauce, lately given him by a princely comrade; the repairing of trousers with the aid of a housewife, also a recent gift; wool socks, rai...