In Uncle Sam’s army

Abstract

As we were riding on the train someone told me that John Hammond had been inducted too and was on the same train as I was and going to Camp Upton. I wasn’t happy to know that John was in the army but if he was on the train I would have been happy to see him, so I walked all through the train looking for him but the report turned out to be false. He had been inducted but he wasn’t on the train that I was on. We rode the train not saying too much to anybody as nobody knew who anyone was. Finally we arrived at Camp Upton. We were met at the train by some soldiers who were there especially to bring us to camp and they started hollering at us just as soon as we stepped off the train, “Fall out! Line up!” So we fell out and lined up. By this time my head had cleared a little bit and I actually felt better and I had decided that, since I was already in the army, I would do my best to be a good soldier, which I knew would make my father happy.