TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER-INDEX NOVEMBER 8, 1918 P. 1
France, Oct. 8, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Just a few lines today.
Everything rather quiet here. The weather is pretty bad over here, rainy, wet sleet and cold waves. Moving north all the time, but I just read a paper and it certainly looks good to me, and I suppose it looks still better to you all, than to us, as we are so far ahead on the news.
Well, I look for peace to be declared any moment. I’ll never forget that July 18 at 10:39 in the morning I began to do my bit toward ending this war, and we are doing it, too, believe me. We have just got here, and now the Germans want peace. But I say this: “Clean them all off the map and then they will be done for good, and if Wilson is pretty quick in his action why we will have the whole damn country in a month.”
This country looks like a young America. Everybody you see is a Yank. I never knew that America had so many soldiers over here, but there are plenty here, believe me.
We are feeding Kaiser Bill on the same medicine that he fed us a few months ago. Well, everyone has his time, and now we are having ours.
We are enjoying life. Have plenty to eat and a place to sleep, and we are all O. K. Hoping you are the same.
Your loving son,
R. H. Boone
NOTES: This letter was written by R. H. Boone to his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cahopa. He was born on November 13, 1893 and died on June 8, 1972. He is buried in the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Kilmicheal, Mississippi. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Pvt. in the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY WHITNEY MCLAUGHLIN
France, Oct. 8, 1918.
Dear Mother and Father:
Just a few lines today.
Everything rather quiet here. The weather is pretty bad over here, rainy, wet sleet and cold waves. Moving north all the time, but I just read a paper and it certainly looks good to me, and I suppose it looks still better to you all, than to us, as we are so far ahead on the news.
Well, I look for peace to be declared any moment. I’ll never forget that July 18 at 10:39 in the morning I began to do my bit toward ending this war, and we are doing it, too, believe me. We have just got here, and now the Germans want peace. But I say this: “Clean them all off the map and then they will be done for good, and if Wilson is pretty quick in his action why we will have the whole damn country in a month.”
This country looks like a young America. Everybody you see is a Yank. I never knew that America had so many soldiers over here, but there are plenty here, believe me.
We are feeding Kaiser Bill on the same medicine that he fed us a few months ago. Well, everyone has his time, and now we are having ours.
We are enjoying life. Have plenty to eat and a place to sleep, and we are all O. K. Hoping you are the same.
Your loving son,
R. H. Boone
NOTES: This letter was written by R. H. Boone to his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cahopa. He was born on November 13, 1893 and died on June 8, 1972. He is buried in the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery in Kilmicheal, Mississippi. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Pvt. in the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY WHITNEY MCLAUGHLIN