Student+17+4th

Dear, Mom and Dad

Hello its very hard being a colonial soldiers and you would not believe what the conditions are like what i have to eat and where i have to sleep. I am sleeping on the wet dirty ground under a small tent with several other guys who are fighting also. since im sleeping on the ground my back hurts when i get up in the morning, but other than that i guess its fine.I do wish that i was back home in my own bed to sleep in. I have made a couple friends but its very hard to keep them because we are moving around so much,but i did find out that one of my friends died a few days ago they said it was some kind of deasease. We dont really get to eat alot but when we do we mostly eat like meats. If I get to hungry i eat shoe lethe and tree bark. The food is really gross but i would rather eat it than go hungry so i guess i have to deal with it. My uniform is torn and dirty, I have no shoes since i ate them so its very cold on my feet. Since we really dont wear uniforms im still wearing the clothes i left in,pants shirt coat and a hat. Im using the extra clothes i got as blankets and stuff i need. some of the men in my tent dont even have shirts because they were ruined and ripped.I feel bad but i also am running out of supplies. The weapons we are using are mostly guns, rifals and cannons. My gun isnt the best sometimes it lockes up and doesnt work. The guns are really loud everytime someone shots one it hurts my ears. They gave us only about a hundred bullets for two weaks so if you run out you in trouble but luckielly i havent run out but i still have a couple days left to use them and only about 20 bullets. My training isnt the best because you know i came from a farm just to help fight for my country. i have got help learning about things from the other guys who are fighting. The battles that i have fought in are Canada which we lost that one it was kind of bad. It was so bad because we were running low on supplies.It was so cold in the battle aginst Canada and since my shoes were gone i had to stand on my ha.t so my feet wouldnt touch the cold snow. i only watched the other battles that i have been to like newyorkand New jersy because i had to help out with the wounded soilders. THe living conditions are horrible all we have to sleep under are a few tents,and even the tents dont keep the harsh weather out to mu chUnfortunatly some of the men dont evn have a tent.