We don't get letters very often here, but I am going to write to you anyway, for I know as long as you get our letters you are happy, and that is what we want you to be, and don't worry about us, mother, for there is hope for us to come home yet. I can't tell you where I am or what is going on, if every man in the battery that I am in should happen to get killed and I should happen to be the only man left, I haven't got a right to tell it. So don't think that we are lonely and feeling blue, because we have nothing to say, for there is lots we can say but the less we say the better we are off. So you see all we are after is to let you know that we are all right, and I suppose that is all you care to know now while we are fighting to save our country and flag, and be sure we are going to save her too, for there is no country and flag like our own red white and blue, and remember if we ever get back that we are going to think more of our flag than we ever have before for the red is going to be dyed a deeper red, for red stands for our blood, and the white we are going to make spotless, for the white stands for our cleanness and pure in heart for our loved ones at home; the blue is for the sky above us, and this beautiful world that we are going to make free, others have died to save our flag, so now we have a chance to do the same and we are ready to die if we have to. 