Brent has been so busy for the last two months that he's fallen out of his habit of writing before bed. He does not have as much time as the soldier or line officer, but they must go to the front line trenches in between periods of rest at camps. He does not have to do these things but he does have to solve sometimes impossible issues of supply. Yesterday in blowing snow he got an urgent call to send supplies to a camp 30 miles south with no food and hundreds of sick men. It took a full day to assemble a train of 10 big van trucks and 10 ambulances to send them. Charlie Ratch, Harvard 1901 and Captain of the 101st Engineers, is to be his new roommate so he will not be as lonely now. He describes the new building they have been moved into, his new work for the military, and the possibility that he might be able to do work with artillery again before the war ends.
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