TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT MARCH 7, 1918 P. 14
Dear Folks:
I am safe. It was a terrible experience, but all over now. You need have no further worries. The worst is over. If the American people imagine they had no cause to fight the Kaiser, they can change that belief and that quickly. Heaven help him if we ever get him.
Some day I can tell you the details of the torpedoing and the rescue by a British destroyer; the reception by some of the finest fellows I have ever met—British Tommies.
We are now living high with a Scotch regiment in northern Ireland. Some of them wear kilts, and it is pretty cool, too.
Our boys are in good shape. Personally, I have felt absolutely no ill effects.
NOTES: Max William Friend was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Friend. He was born on October 2, 1892 at Oxford, Mississippi and died on December 4, 1969 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is buried in the Cavalry Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. He served with the 20th Engineers, HQ and on was on the transport Tuscania when it was sunk by the Germans. He grew up in Fort Smith and was living there at the time he enlisted.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
Dear Folks:
I am safe. It was a terrible experience, but all over now. You need have no further worries. The worst is over. If the American people imagine they had no cause to fight the Kaiser, they can change that belief and that quickly. Heaven help him if we ever get him.
Some day I can tell you the details of the torpedoing and the rescue by a British destroyer; the reception by some of the finest fellows I have ever met—British Tommies.
We are now living high with a Scotch regiment in northern Ireland. Some of them wear kilts, and it is pretty cool, too.
Our boys are in good shape. Personally, I have felt absolutely no ill effects.
NOTES: Max William Friend was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Friend. He was born on October 2, 1892 at Oxford, Mississippi and died on December 4, 1969 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is buried in the Cavalry Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. He served with the 20th Engineers, HQ and on was on the transport Tuscania when it was sunk by the Germans. He grew up in Fort Smith and was living there at the time he enlisted.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT