TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HOPE STAR NOVEMBER 7, 1917 P. 1
312 Div. Sup. Train, Co. 4
Camp Pike, Ark.,
Nov. 3, 1917
Mr. Ed McCorkle,
Hope, Ark.
Dear friend:
I thought I would write you a letter and let you know that I am in fine health. Plenty of fresh air and exercise will build up any person. There are several boys here who are home sick, but they can’t get away to go home. I have got over my home-sick spell. We go on Sunday to Y. M. C. A. to Sunday-school, but it is not like it is at home, for you don’t know but a few of the boys. Back home you would know all of them. We may move most anytime. I often think of the boys back at Hope in the Sunday-school class which I was in while I was there. Eight boys came from Bodcaw with me and now I am separated from them. We have to do as Uncle Sam says.
There is only one way for a soldier to save money. That is to buy a Liberty Bond, and when he comes out of the army he will have capital to start into civil life again. Most of the boys at Camp Pike have bought Liberty Bonds. I have bought one myself.
Your friend,
Adlai E. Mack
NOTES: Mack was born on March 26, 1894 and died on November 16, 1970. He is buried in the Shover Springs Cemetery in Hempstead County Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. Btry. 8 317 FA 81st Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
312 Div. Sup. Train, Co. 4
Camp Pike, Ark.,
Nov. 3, 1917
Mr. Ed McCorkle,
Hope, Ark.
Dear friend:
I thought I would write you a letter and let you know that I am in fine health. Plenty of fresh air and exercise will build up any person. There are several boys here who are home sick, but they can’t get away to go home. I have got over my home-sick spell. We go on Sunday to Y. M. C. A. to Sunday-school, but it is not like it is at home, for you don’t know but a few of the boys. Back home you would know all of them. We may move most anytime. I often think of the boys back at Hope in the Sunday-school class which I was in while I was there. Eight boys came from Bodcaw with me and now I am separated from them. We have to do as Uncle Sam says.
There is only one way for a soldier to save money. That is to buy a Liberty Bond, and when he comes out of the army he will have capital to start into civil life again. Most of the boys at Camp Pike have bought Liberty Bonds. I have bought one myself.
Your friend,
Adlai E. Mack
NOTES: Mack was born on March 26, 1894 and died on November 16, 1970. He is buried in the Shover Springs Cemetery in Hempstead County Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. Btry. 8 317 FA 81st Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON