Pacific service magazine . writes whilegoing through Nebraska at about fiftymiles per: We are at last on our way East afterspending about three months in trainingand I think that all of us are very gladto be here, in spite of the fact that wewere all sorry to leave Portland. It meansthat at last we are about to do our part Pacific Service Magazine 17 in the business that wehave been thinking aboutand preparing for and weare certainly going to doour best. We do not knowwhat our immediate futureis to be, but we all hope foran early embarkation andarrival in France. Whilewe are still here and whi
Pacific service magazine . writes whilegoing through Nebraska at about fiftymiles per: We are at last on our way East afterspending about three months in trainingand I think that all of us are very gladto be here, in spite of the fact that wewere all sorry to leave Portland. It meansthat at last we are about to do our part Pacific Service Magazine 17 in the business that wehave been thinking aboutand preparing for and weare certainly going to doour best. We do not knowwhat our immediate futureis to be, but we all hope foran early embarkation andarrival in France. Whilewe are still here and whilewe have a chance, I wantedto write you all again andbid farewell. Later on Imay be too busy. The Committee on Rela-tions with Our Employeesin the Army and Navy hasalso received from the em-ployees in a Good Cheerand Tobacco Fund over $ this fund they aresending to the bonys in this country andin France tobacco, snuff or smokes, orsuch little needs as may be called to theirattention that the boys would Sapper Stuart N. Smith, 6thCanadian Ry. troops, some-where in France. (Form-erly of the Alameda CountyDistrict.) Mr. W. T. Jones received the followingletter from John V. Spinetti, formerly ofthe Electrical Department. Mr. Spinettiis now at Vancouver, Wash. Received your splendid letter of April30th and was glad to know of the inter-est that you are taking in us boys whoare in the service. It is encouraging tous to know that our friends and home-folks are interested in us, and are be-hind us. Your roll of honor is a splendid sys-tem of keeping all the employees notifiedwhere we are, and which branch of theservice we are in. I receive the Pacfic Service Magazineregular every month, which I enjoy read-ing very much. of May. As a rigger and allier also he will becomethoroughly experienced inthe art of building andoperating airplanes. Toquote from his letter: Fly-ing is certainly one of thegreatest thrills a fellow canhave, to shoot through theair. You never saw
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