TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DARDANELLE POST-DISPATCH OCTOBER 25, 1917 P. 4
Camp Pike, Ark.,
Oct. 13, 1917
To the Volunteer’s for Christ Society,
Chickalah, Ark.
We need your prayers and we want them. We are far from home and loved ones and friends for the sake of our country. We are not here because we want to be but for the sake of our country. We have made a great sacrifice; we have left homes, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, kindred and friends, with broken hearts and eyes flooded with tears. But we will never forget that love will always be in our hearts. Oh, may God send us safely home: but if it is His will we are willing to die for our country and your protection. May God help us to do our duty, and if we never meet on earth again, may we meet in heaven. Pray for us that we may be winners and come home safely.
ROY CALLAN
NOTES: Roy Hartsel Callan was born in Delaware, Arkansas on September 24, 1895 and died on March 9, 1971. He is buried in the New Hope Cemetery at Dardanelle, Arkansas. Mrs. J. B. Wilkerson, Supt. Of the Sunday School, requested that this letter be published. The letter was originally sent to the Young People’s Society, which Callan had been president just before he went into the service.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Camp Pike, Ark.,
Oct. 13, 1917
To the Volunteer’s for Christ Society,
Chickalah, Ark.
We need your prayers and we want them. We are far from home and loved ones and friends for the sake of our country. We are not here because we want to be but for the sake of our country. We have made a great sacrifice; we have left homes, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, kindred and friends, with broken hearts and eyes flooded with tears. But we will never forget that love will always be in our hearts. Oh, may God send us safely home: but if it is His will we are willing to die for our country and your protection. May God help us to do our duty, and if we never meet on earth again, may we meet in heaven. Pray for us that we may be winners and come home safely.
ROY CALLAN
NOTES: Roy Hartsel Callan was born in Delaware, Arkansas on September 24, 1895 and died on March 9, 1971. He is buried in the New Hope Cemetery at Dardanelle, Arkansas. Mrs. J. B. Wilkerson, Supt. Of the Sunday School, requested that this letter be published. The letter was originally sent to the Young People’s Society, which Callan had been president just before he went into the service.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD