TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MOUNTAIN WAVE FEBRUARY 15, 1918 P. 2
Camp Kearney, Calif., February 6, 1918
To the Mountain Wave:
I have not received my paper for some four weeks. Would like the next issue, please. It is almost like getting a letter from home. I am sending you a few lines, which you may publish if you wish. (I thank you.)
Some day we are going back to Arizona, to the place we adore, for we have mothers, wives, sweethearts and friends by the score; to the places where we called home, boys, where our hearts long to be, just to see those smiling faces waiting there for you and me. They will all be glad to see us, there is not a vision of a doubt, but you bet there will be some cheering when from the train we shout: “We have come back to old Arizona with Old Glory flying high, and we will stamp our trade-mark of Freedom on all Europe’s skies.”
They say it will take good men to do it, and I guess they mean what they say, for they have chosen good old Arizona when the other states would not quite do. But you see, there was some reason when the President called us here. He wanted hard finished men and not of light material. He said the iron-muscled men were just the kind for him; so, he chose good old Arizona just to get the men with the vim. Some day we are going back there and I will say this to all: That this bunch of cowpunchers will all be ready when they make the next call.
Here is to our Captain and Lieutenant, may they forever do well, they have treated this bunch of Arizona soldiers swell.
Sergt. B. B. Griffin,
Supply Company, 158th Infantry.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp Kearney, Calif., February 6, 1918
To the Mountain Wave:
I have not received my paper for some four weeks. Would like the next issue, please. It is almost like getting a letter from home. I am sending you a few lines, which you may publish if you wish. (I thank you.)
Some day we are going back to Arizona, to the place we adore, for we have mothers, wives, sweethearts and friends by the score; to the places where we called home, boys, where our hearts long to be, just to see those smiling faces waiting there for you and me. They will all be glad to see us, there is not a vision of a doubt, but you bet there will be some cheering when from the train we shout: “We have come back to old Arizona with Old Glory flying high, and we will stamp our trade-mark of Freedom on all Europe’s skies.”
They say it will take good men to do it, and I guess they mean what they say, for they have chosen good old Arizona when the other states would not quite do. But you see, there was some reason when the President called us here. He wanted hard finished men and not of light material. He said the iron-muscled men were just the kind for him; so, he chose good old Arizona just to get the men with the vim. Some day we are going back there and I will say this to all: That this bunch of cowpunchers will all be ready when they make the next call.
Here is to our Captain and Lieutenant, may they forever do well, they have treated this bunch of Arizona soldiers swell.
Sergt. B. B. Griffin,
Supply Company, 158th Infantry.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS