TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MENA WEEKLY STAR AUGUST 22, 1918 P. 4
It’s the backing that we get from home that is going to win this war and the honors when they are divided should go as much to those that are backing us at home as to ourselves who are sacrificing our good homes in the best country in the world.
If the people of the United States will stand pat behind the President and the army aboard I know that the army will bring home the bacon in a very short time.
As to the kaiser’s scalp, why, there are a million Yanks after that bird’s hair and I am afraid that some of us are going to be greatly disappointed, but one consolation we will have is knowing the fact we helped get the animal.
NOTES: Excerpts from this letter from England were first published in The Fort Smith Times Record from Sergeant John “Jack” Phillip Connell of the 63rd aero squadron, A.E.F., to A. D. Rianhard of Gay Oil Company of Mena, Arkansas Connell was born on July 13, 1896 at Mena, Arkansas and died on October 1962 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Mena.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.
It’s the backing that we get from home that is going to win this war and the honors when they are divided should go as much to those that are backing us at home as to ourselves who are sacrificing our good homes in the best country in the world.
If the people of the United States will stand pat behind the President and the army aboard I know that the army will bring home the bacon in a very short time.
As to the kaiser’s scalp, why, there are a million Yanks after that bird’s hair and I am afraid that some of us are going to be greatly disappointed, but one consolation we will have is knowing the fact we helped get the animal.
NOTES: Excerpts from this letter from England were first published in The Fort Smith Times Record from Sergeant John “Jack” Phillip Connell of the 63rd aero squadron, A.E.F., to A. D. Rianhard of Gay Oil Company of Mena, Arkansas Connell was born on July 13, 1896 at Mena, Arkansas and died on October 1962 at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is buried in the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Mena.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.