Letter describes the differences between living in the hotel and the tent; the tent is much cleaner and more comfortable. Maida also describes social occasions, such as lunch, and their makeshift bathtubs constructed by the G.I.'s for them where the water is treated. She describes the cattle carts and bicycles used for transportation, "innumerable crucifixes of varying ornateness" erected all throughout the devastation, and the landscape and people of Carenton, France, in wartime.
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