Dear Parents, Brothers and Sisters:

I take great pleasure in writing a few lines to you, hoping it will find you all in good health, as it leaves me at present.

We are now in the trenches again for a few weeks but we will soon be out again for a good rest. The Huns are pretty quiet to-night. There are times when you would never dream that there was a war on at all, and then we have spells that give us the impression that all hell has been turned loose. But I saw the sight of my life this evening just before dark. A German aeroplane came from the German lines and glided right over our gun position and it was only fifty feet high, it was captured close to our headquarters. I afterwards interviewed the Colonel and he said they had got the pilot and the observer prisoners and had placed a guard over the machine. Talk about

the noise when that machine was sighted, it was tremendous and every man had a shot at it, and I tell you it was great excitement.

I state before closing that there is no need to worry over me, as I am contented and am here to do my share in a grand good cause. I am only one, but units make tens, tens make hundreds and hundreds make thousands, and there are hundreds more that could and would be in the ranks if they would but stop a minute and picture the contrast between our present life of liberty and the compulsory German military bondage under which we must all bow the knee should the enemy conquer us, and this I hope and trust will never come to pass. I am freely giving all I have and hold dear to help to preserve our liberty and the honor of our women and children from further molestation from the enemy.

Your affectionate son,
Jim.