TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD APRIL 17, 1918 P. 4
London, England.
March 7, 1918.
Dear Father:
Will drop you a line to let you know I haven’t forgotten you. I have been here in London for a month but I think I will be leaving in a few days for France, but I can’t say what town. I wrote you once before since I came here but I forgot to mail it. I just left here Christmas day and went to Newport News for one day then to New York, for one day and then right back here again. If I get back across again I’ll try and come home for a few days at least. I can’t tell you any war news as it wouldn’t come through the censors anyway. I may try to join the army when I get back, but I am doing more good where I am. But I still feel like a piker not being in the army but still we can’t all join the army, if we did the whole army would starve. I suppose there are a lot of the boys I know in the army and navy now. Well I don’t know of very much to write so I will have to close for this time hoping the letter finds you all well.
I remain your son
Geo. H. Miller
NOTES: Miller was serving in the Merchant Marines. He was writing to his father James D. Miller of Helena, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
London, England.
March 7, 1918.
Dear Father:
Will drop you a line to let you know I haven’t forgotten you. I have been here in London for a month but I think I will be leaving in a few days for France, but I can’t say what town. I wrote you once before since I came here but I forgot to mail it. I just left here Christmas day and went to Newport News for one day then to New York, for one day and then right back here again. If I get back across again I’ll try and come home for a few days at least. I can’t tell you any war news as it wouldn’t come through the censors anyway. I may try to join the army when I get back, but I am doing more good where I am. But I still feel like a piker not being in the army but still we can’t all join the army, if we did the whole army would starve. I suppose there are a lot of the boys I know in the army and navy now. Well I don’t know of very much to write so I will have to close for this time hoping the letter finds you all well.
I remain your son
Geo. H. Miller
NOTES: Miller was serving in the Merchant Marines. He was writing to his father James D. Miller of Helena, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD