23rd June, 1919

Now we are at war. Russians have been kicked back for a moment, but now there is another enemy from the south. We are in Landeswehr now. It's an army, formed in Latvia. There are "landeshwer" people, meaning those Germans, who came here in 13th centrury and stayed here, ruled over us. They were in Latvia fighting for Latvia, but now turned against our dear neighbors and we are here to help. We are near Võnnu or Cesis, however you prefer to call it in Northern Latvia, near the border. Our boys have done good so far. Seems like we are on the rush.

There aren't too many victims, but there is death and injured, but most of them are still on the field and not here with us. It's bloody fight and I have a feeling like the men want to kill those people. People, who treated us like slaves for a long time basically from 1227 to 1816/1819. It's 2 numbers, because at the time Estonia was separated into 2 parts – Northern Estonia was called Estonia and the southern part along with Latvia was part of Liwland, but all parts were under Russian control at that time. Russia controlled us from 1710 (officially from 1721) to 1918. But that's part of an ancient history. The point is that those people had controlled us for a very long time and it's sweet to finally get back to them.

Rüdiger van der Goltz. That is the name of Landeswehr leader. Against them is Estonian 3rd division. There are more experienced men than schoolboys. This war has been going on since the beginning of June, I believe we came here on 6th, but my dates might not be correct. Actually we signed a piece on 16th June, but on 19th the war began again. And seems like it's ending today, at least the enemy is not so powerful anymore, and they have lost a lot of men. Hope the solution will come today.

Boys are still in Tartu. Their life is as normal as it can be, because they go to school, then to home and sometimes they do the training too. They are in reserve, but ready to fight at any moment. Their battalion is strong, disciplined and useful.

I heard that Ducky was sent home too. We get occasional letters from him and others. Okay, we got letters, because the mailing service is really not that good. The last time we had mail was about a month ago, before we arrived here in Latvia in Võnnu or Cesis, whatever anyone prefers.

***NCIS***

Later that night, I was exhausted, because we got a lot of victims. Me, Abby, Ziva and Kate were happy to know that the enemy was defeated – this battle is over at least. Though, it might take some time to wrap things up in here. They said that Landeswehr army is backing off, they are moving to Riga, but Estonians are following.

"Finally," was Ziva's first reaction.

"Home..." Kate dreamed.

"No more blood," I say.

"At last," Abby adds.

With that everything is said. We fall asleep in peace that night. Only to wake up the next morning and face one half of our nightmare – death and blood.