TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN JULY 5, 1918 P. 2
To Baxter County friends:
I like army life fine. I would be ashamed to be caught wearing civilian clothes until the war is over.
I didn’t have to stay at Camp only a few days, then I was transferred to Little Rock on the military police force. We sure have a nice place to stay and good things to eat. We stay at City Hall. I’m at Camp Pike most every day, delivering prisoners. There are quite a few boys up there I would like to see in camp. So when they come to Little rock and don’t obey orders I arrest them. We sure land on the boys and put them in jail. Most of the boys that come to Camp with me are in South Carolina now. I sure begged to be put in Class A so I could go with them and to France also. I may get to cross the pond yet for all I know, hope I will for the happiest day of my life will be when I stab a darn German in the heart with my bayonet and wipe the blood off with my fingers.
Resp.
Marion Moody,
312 M P. City Hall
Little Rock, Ark.
NOTES: Marion Moody was born on December 18, 1891 in Arkansas and died on April 27, 1980 in Bowie, Texas. He is buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie. He enlisted on May 25, 1918 and was discharged on December 19, 1918. He was described as being of medium height and build with gray eyes and black hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
To Baxter County friends:
I like army life fine. I would be ashamed to be caught wearing civilian clothes until the war is over.
I didn’t have to stay at Camp only a few days, then I was transferred to Little Rock on the military police force. We sure have a nice place to stay and good things to eat. We stay at City Hall. I’m at Camp Pike most every day, delivering prisoners. There are quite a few boys up there I would like to see in camp. So when they come to Little rock and don’t obey orders I arrest them. We sure land on the boys and put them in jail. Most of the boys that come to Camp with me are in South Carolina now. I sure begged to be put in Class A so I could go with them and to France also. I may get to cross the pond yet for all I know, hope I will for the happiest day of my life will be when I stab a darn German in the heart with my bayonet and wipe the blood off with my fingers.
Resp.
Marion Moody,
312 M P. City Hall
Little Rock, Ark.
NOTES: Marion Moody was born on December 18, 1891 in Arkansas and died on April 27, 1980 in Bowie, Texas. He is buried in the Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie. He enlisted on May 25, 1918 and was discharged on December 19, 1918. He was described as being of medium height and build with gray eyes and black hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT