"Well this will be the last, or one of the last letters that I will write from France. Unless the dope goes wrong some way." Continue Reading...
Letter to Mother
"It seems I told you a little too soon that you should stop writing to me, for I have received no mail for a week, but I’ll leave France soon so I did not miss it far. However I will be lonesome without any mail." Continue Reading...
Letter to Dad
"I am surprised to hear that you are not getting letters from me regularly. I write often but when we are anticipating a move toward home the days slip by faster than usual." Continue Reading...
Letter to Mother
"Betting about camp favors two to one that we will sail before Apr. 10th, but I’d never bet on anything cause orders can be changed too easily. We moved yesterday from the tents at the Rifle Range into barracks and I hear that we are due for another move in a few days to another part of camp." Continue Reading...
Letter to Mother
"Well there is no news today but the sun is shining and I feel more like my self. Just think in 1918 there were only 33 days of no rain out of 365 and they call it 'sunny France.'" Continue Reading...
Letter to Dad
"Well I am three days (via rail) nearer home than when I last wrote but there is still a lot to be done in the way of waiting till I get home. We are shooting on the rifle range now." Continue reading...
Robert, Immortalized
Throughout this whole project, with all of Robert’s ups and downs, there was one pair of diary entries that really stuck with me. Continue reading...
Letter to Mother
"I will be mighty glad to be out of the army. Every pay day there are fights over card games, etc. Two men went to the Base with busted heads Sunday. One got hit with a beer bottle and the other with a bayonet. I don’t know whether they will live or not." Continue reading...
Letter to Dad
"This will be the last letter you will get from me from this town. I will leave here in two days for Le Mans or some camp near there, perhaps in pup tents." Continue reading...
Rawyards, Stanrigg and the Road Not Taken
Nothing from Robert today; I just want to use this space to capture some words and images I found relating to some of Robert’s and my ancestors. Continue reading...
MN Doughboy 1918 