{Post card sent by Robert O'Connell to his sister Sarah, postmarked May 2,1917]

Wednesday

Your letter arrived this morning and you can bet it is good to get mail here. 
I wish there was a chance to skip up home for a day but it takes about 12 hours
to make it, as near as I can figure, and they have stopped giving passes for
anything over a day. I am going to write you a long letter Sunday and you will
get it about Tuesday. We are all praying that a bill in Congress raising the 
men's pay to $30.00 a month will be passed. It sounds like a whole bank.
You soger brother,
Pvt. O'Connell, Co. A, Sir.
Aint it purty?

[Transcribed by W.J.Shepherd, 4/21/2009]