We live in denims all the time

This is the last entry in Grant Willard's WWI diary. Just a few hours after he wrote these words, he and his unit boarded a ship for home.

Saturday, May 17, 1919:

Up at 5:30--breakfast at 6. At 7 o’clock we marched over to Camp #1 where we were again de-cootized. We were then taken over to barracks--92 men in one barracks with a permanent corporal in charge. Regulations are most strict. We live in denims all the time, are only allowed out of the barracks from 8-11 and 2-5 and then only for drill. No prospects of leaving.

The ship the 647 boarded was the U.S.S. Mallory. She left port early on the morning of May 18 and the men caught their last glimpse of France as the sun rose in the east.