TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF GRAPHIC OCTOBER 11, 1918 P. 3
Dear Aunt:
You wanted to know about the war. I can’t tell so very much, but the American soldiers are driving the Huns back every time they get where they can get to them. Don’t see how the war can last much longer, and there is no doubt as to whether we will win or not. I am in the Y. M. C. A. this afternoon, and if it wasn’t for the Y. M. C. A. I don’t know what we fellows would do. They take tobacco and cigarettes right up to the front line to the boys, where the shells are bursting all about.
If you ever want to donate anything to war activities, give to the Y. M. C. A. I can tell you it is a great sight to see the French families moving back into their homes that the Germans had occupied for two or three years. Some of them are pretty badly torn down but the French people are proud of them just the same.
I can’t have any pictures taken over here, but will have some made when I can, and will send you one.
Your nephew,
WILL
NOTES: This letter is written by Sgt. Will Hamilton of Company E, 4th Ammunition Train of the AEF. He is writing to his aunt, Mrs. Fannie Nobles of Humphrey, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Dear Aunt:
You wanted to know about the war. I can’t tell so very much, but the American soldiers are driving the Huns back every time they get where they can get to them. Don’t see how the war can last much longer, and there is no doubt as to whether we will win or not. I am in the Y. M. C. A. this afternoon, and if it wasn’t for the Y. M. C. A. I don’t know what we fellows would do. They take tobacco and cigarettes right up to the front line to the boys, where the shells are bursting all about.
If you ever want to donate anything to war activities, give to the Y. M. C. A. I can tell you it is a great sight to see the French families moving back into their homes that the Germans had occupied for two or three years. Some of them are pretty badly torn down but the French people are proud of them just the same.
I can’t have any pictures taken over here, but will have some made when I can, and will send you one.
Your nephew,
WILL
NOTES: This letter is written by Sgt. Will Hamilton of Company E, 4th Ammunition Train of the AEF. He is writing to his aunt, Mrs. Fannie Nobles of Humphrey, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS