TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHARP COUNTY RECORD SEPTEMBER 20, 1918 P. 1
Editor Record:
Most of the Sharp country boys have gone from here, but I am still at Camp Beau-
regard. I have been here since last autumn, but expect to be sent away within the next two months. I certainly am getting tired of this place, but am pretty sure I won’t be kept here much longer.
Most of the boys have been sent away and new ones have come in to take their places. I think if
Uncle Sam continues to train men like he is at present he will soon have enough men in the field whip the kaiser.
We have a pretty good time in camp. Of course we would like to be back at home with our folks and friends if it were not for this great struggle, but we don’t want to be back now. When we think of the great nation that we live in and the freedom we have we are more than willing to serve our country. We realize what the Germans would do for us if they only had an opportunity, from the things they have done to other civilized nations. We know of the Belgian rape and how they mutilated the hands of Belgian children. We have Belgian children in our own country who have had both their hands cut off by the Germans. Did the savages ever
commit crimes any worse than that?
We know it would be our duty to die before permitting the Germans to treat our women and children that way. Our forefathers fought and many of them gave their lives that we might enjoy the freedom we have been having for many years. They did not do this for their own personal interest entirely but for the interest of the coming generations. We are willing to do what they would do if they were living.
When Washington and his little army spent the winter at Valley Forge and his army had scarcely either food or clothing, they could have given up and had better than that, but they were looking to the interests of humanity. We feel proud when we think about what America has done. She first freed herself, then the slaves, next the Cubans, and now, by the help of God, we are going to free the world.
Claud C. Jones
Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY GABBY RUSHING
Editor Record:
Most of the Sharp country boys have gone from here, but I am still at Camp Beau-
regard. I have been here since last autumn, but expect to be sent away within the next two months. I certainly am getting tired of this place, but am pretty sure I won’t be kept here much longer.
Most of the boys have been sent away and new ones have come in to take their places. I think if
Uncle Sam continues to train men like he is at present he will soon have enough men in the field whip the kaiser.
We have a pretty good time in camp. Of course we would like to be back at home with our folks and friends if it were not for this great struggle, but we don’t want to be back now. When we think of the great nation that we live in and the freedom we have we are more than willing to serve our country. We realize what the Germans would do for us if they only had an opportunity, from the things they have done to other civilized nations. We know of the Belgian rape and how they mutilated the hands of Belgian children. We have Belgian children in our own country who have had both their hands cut off by the Germans. Did the savages ever
commit crimes any worse than that?
We know it would be our duty to die before permitting the Germans to treat our women and children that way. Our forefathers fought and many of them gave their lives that we might enjoy the freedom we have been having for many years. They did not do this for their own personal interest entirely but for the interest of the coming generations. We are willing to do what they would do if they were living.
When Washington and his little army spent the winter at Valley Forge and his army had scarcely either food or clothing, they could have given up and had better than that, but they were looking to the interests of humanity. We feel proud when we think about what America has done. She first freed herself, then the slaves, next the Cubans, and now, by the help of God, we are going to free the world.
Claud C. Jones
Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY GABBY RUSHING