TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWARK JOURNAL OCTOBER 18, 1917 P. 1
Editor Journal
If you will allow me space in you paper I will try to write a few lines to the people at home.
We are enjoying life at Camp Beauregard. We like Louisiana very well, but of course it is not like Arkansas with us. We are hvaing some fine weather here but it is might dry, has rained but little since we arrived here.
Our squad is quarantined on account of the measles, but we are well cared for, but we sometimes have the blues. We are located in a little pine grove and all we can here is the songs of the pine. Our company certainly does feed us well, but we hate to put them to so much trouble for they have to carry our food to us.
The Y. M. C. A. men came over yesterday to see us and held religious srevices and we enjoyed it very much for it made us feel like we were at home. The Y. M. C. A. is certainly a good thing. They also furnish us with stationery and good reading material. Words cannot express our appreciation of the Y. M. C. A.
Don’t know how long we will be quarantined but think it will just be for ten days and we have been here three days already.
No doubt some of the people there think that our joining the army was all uncalled for, but in my opinion we are fighting for all that is right, civilized and humane, and against a power which threatens the existence of all the rights we prize and the freedom we enjoy. I think we will never have an opportunity to do so much for our country or the advancement of the world’s progress, for I believe we are fighting a power who if that power wins will set the whole world back many centuries, and deprive us of our democracy which our forefathers so dearly gained. I am not only willing to give my time to my country, but also my life. I am in it to a finish.
Francis Anderson
Co. F. 154 Inf. 39th Division
Camp Beauregard
Alexandria, La.
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TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Editor Journal
If you will allow me space in you paper I will try to write a few lines to the people at home.
We are enjoying life at Camp Beauregard. We like Louisiana very well, but of course it is not like Arkansas with us. We are hvaing some fine weather here but it is might dry, has rained but little since we arrived here.
Our squad is quarantined on account of the measles, but we are well cared for, but we sometimes have the blues. We are located in a little pine grove and all we can here is the songs of the pine. Our company certainly does feed us well, but we hate to put them to so much trouble for they have to carry our food to us.
The Y. M. C. A. men came over yesterday to see us and held religious srevices and we enjoyed it very much for it made us feel like we were at home. The Y. M. C. A. is certainly a good thing. They also furnish us with stationery and good reading material. Words cannot express our appreciation of the Y. M. C. A.
Don’t know how long we will be quarantined but think it will just be for ten days and we have been here three days already.
No doubt some of the people there think that our joining the army was all uncalled for, but in my opinion we are fighting for all that is right, civilized and humane, and against a power which threatens the existence of all the rights we prize and the freedom we enjoy. I think we will never have an opportunity to do so much for our country or the advancement of the world’s progress, for I believe we are fighting a power who if that power wins will set the whole world back many centuries, and deprive us of our democracy which our forefathers so dearly gained. I am not only willing to give my time to my country, but also my life. I am in it to a finish.
Francis Anderson
Co. F. 154 Inf. 39th Division
Camp Beauregard
Alexandria, La.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON