"I wrote you a long time ago that I got your box from Scotland. It was awfully good of you Mother dear to think of me like that. I nearly cried." Continue reading...
French
Letter to Dad
"We have been having a lot of inspections for cooties, or anything else. There seems to be some mistake about disease among the people at home. There is very little anywhere as far as I know." Continue reading...
Letter to Mother
"The Frogs tell us “le guerre par finish” which means the war is not over." Continue reading...
Letter to Dad
"They are sending me away to Gas School today so I thought I would drop you a line before I go. I will be gone a week so will probably spend Xmas away from Company B." Continue reading...
Commercy
“Went to Commercy. Saw Jack Helsper + Art Herbert." Continue reading...
Letter to Mother
"The Frog trains look like a picture of a train that some three-year-old might draw, and they have a little squeaky whistle that sounds like a popcorn wagon." Continue reading...
Letter to Mother
"We have a little time each morning to clean up around our billet. The old lady downstairs throws her ashes, garbage, sweepings, etc. out the door so we have to clear it up." Continue reading...
Letter to Mother
"Tomorrow we are going to play war. We are going to capture the city of St. Mihiel. Just to keep in training." Continue reading...
Letter to Mother
"Since I have been in France I have been in action nine times. Your prayers and the prayers of my sisters, father, aunts + uncles, and my wife have brought me through it all that I may return to America to show you all whether or not I am a worthy son, brother, and husband and father."
Letter to Dad
"The English call them “cooties.” The French “to-tos” and in America they are plain lice. There is no efficient preventative. You just have to get immune to them."
MN Doughboy 1918 