TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN MAY 2, 1919 P. 1
(Censored), Germany,
March 29, ’19.
Mrs. Electo Dickerson,
Laytonville, Ark.
Dearest friend:
Will try to get a letter to you once more to see if I can hear from you.
This leaves me well and hope it will find you the same.
Well Mrs. Dickerson I am in Germany on the Rhine river, doing guard duty. Don’t know when I will get to come home. I think I will get to come home in July, I hope it wont be any longer than that any way. I wish I could see you and Mr. Dickerson now, I will have lots to tell you when I see you again. I have been all over France and England, and a part of Germany and I have seen all of this country I want to see. All I want to see now is the dear Old U. S. A. once more, and the Statue of Liberty.
Tell all hello for me for I can’t write to every body you know.
Well Mrs. Dickerson I don’t know much to write but if I could see you I could tell you lots. I never would get through talking, but I can’t write much. I hope you and Mr. Dickerson are well and enjoying life. I am making the best of it over here, for I know it doesn’t do any good to worry about coming home, for Uncle Sam will bring me home when he gets ready for me to come, so I don’t worry, I’m just proud I didn’t have to go through as much as some of the boys did.
I will close hoping to hear from you soon.
Your friend,
Earnest E. Brown,
Co G, 18th Inf., 1 Div.
American E. F.
NOTES: Ernest E. Brown was born on July 6, 1894 in Mountain Home, Arkansas and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 5, 1980. He is buried in the Park Grove Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His military headstone identifies him as a Pfc. in the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
(Censored), Germany,
March 29, ’19.
Mrs. Electo Dickerson,
Laytonville, Ark.
Dearest friend:
Will try to get a letter to you once more to see if I can hear from you.
This leaves me well and hope it will find you the same.
Well Mrs. Dickerson I am in Germany on the Rhine river, doing guard duty. Don’t know when I will get to come home. I think I will get to come home in July, I hope it wont be any longer than that any way. I wish I could see you and Mr. Dickerson now, I will have lots to tell you when I see you again. I have been all over France and England, and a part of Germany and I have seen all of this country I want to see. All I want to see now is the dear Old U. S. A. once more, and the Statue of Liberty.
Tell all hello for me for I can’t write to every body you know.
Well Mrs. Dickerson I don’t know much to write but if I could see you I could tell you lots. I never would get through talking, but I can’t write much. I hope you and Mr. Dickerson are well and enjoying life. I am making the best of it over here, for I know it doesn’t do any good to worry about coming home, for Uncle Sam will bring me home when he gets ready for me to come, so I don’t worry, I’m just proud I didn’t have to go through as much as some of the boys did.
I will close hoping to hear from you soon.
Your friend,
Earnest E. Brown,
Co G, 18th Inf., 1 Div.
American E. F.
NOTES: Ernest E. Brown was born on July 6, 1894 in Mountain Home, Arkansas and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on July 5, 1980. He is buried in the Park Grove Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. His military headstone identifies him as a Pfc. in the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS