TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 22, 1919 P. 2
My Dear Father, Mother and sister:
Have just received your letter and am going to answer it now. Have had several letters since I have been in France. I am in a little town now called Hames, about four miles from Langres. We were at an army school at Fort Plesney, for about eight weeks, and where we were taught all the tricks of war. We are leaving here soon, however, but don't know where we are to go, only I hope it is for home, sweet home and the good old U.S.A. Mother and Dad, please don't worry about me. My health is the best in the world and I have plenty of good eats. I will have big tales to tell you when I get home. They never can change the old town of Grubbs so that I won't know it, but there are lots of the boys from there that will never see home or the old town, and that is what makes me sad, but they gave their lives for a noble cause. One never knows what home is until he gets this far away, then there is but one place for him and that is home and his mother. If I ever get there it will be a long time before I will leave again--even for war. The weather here is miserable, rains most all the time, but we have had no snow or hard freezes, and I hope we will not.
There are plenty of boys from Arkansas in my company, but none from my home county. We are all in the mess hall this afternoon, some are writing letters home, some are playing cards, while others are reading. On Christmas day we had a big dinner and the Y.M.C.A. gave each boy a Christmas box, which had cigars, nuts, candy and other eatables in it and believe me we were tickled to death. President Wilson came to see us and reviewed the 77th Division and we all saw him. There certainly was some crowd there and believe me, dear old Woodrow did look good to me. I only wish he would say: "Send every one of those boys right home this month."
all goodbye.
F. A. GRIZZLE,
Company B. Demonstration Bn., A.P.O., 714 Army School.
NOTES: F. A. Grizzle was writing to his parents and sister from Grubbs, Arkansas. The introduction to the letter shows his name as F. G. Grizzle.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
My Dear Father, Mother and sister:
Have just received your letter and am going to answer it now. Have had several letters since I have been in France. I am in a little town now called Hames, about four miles from Langres. We were at an army school at Fort Plesney, for about eight weeks, and where we were taught all the tricks of war. We are leaving here soon, however, but don't know where we are to go, only I hope it is for home, sweet home and the good old U.S.A. Mother and Dad, please don't worry about me. My health is the best in the world and I have plenty of good eats. I will have big tales to tell you when I get home. They never can change the old town of Grubbs so that I won't know it, but there are lots of the boys from there that will never see home or the old town, and that is what makes me sad, but they gave their lives for a noble cause. One never knows what home is until he gets this far away, then there is but one place for him and that is home and his mother. If I ever get there it will be a long time before I will leave again--even for war. The weather here is miserable, rains most all the time, but we have had no snow or hard freezes, and I hope we will not.
There are plenty of boys from Arkansas in my company, but none from my home county. We are all in the mess hall this afternoon, some are writing letters home, some are playing cards, while others are reading. On Christmas day we had a big dinner and the Y.M.C.A. gave each boy a Christmas box, which had cigars, nuts, candy and other eatables in it and believe me we were tickled to death. President Wilson came to see us and reviewed the 77th Division and we all saw him. There certainly was some crowd there and believe me, dear old Woodrow did look good to me. I only wish he would say: "Send every one of those boys right home this month."
all goodbye.
F. A. GRIZZLE,
Company B. Demonstration Bn., A.P.O., 714 Army School.
NOTES: F. A. Grizzle was writing to his parents and sister from Grubbs, Arkansas. The introduction to the letter shows his name as F. G. Grizzle.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD