TRANSCRIBED FROM THE POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD AUGUST 23, 1918 P. 4
Dear Editor:
If you will allow me space in your paper; will write a few lines to my dear old friends and relatives of dear old Randolph.
I like this place extremely well. There are more than 90,000 Jackies here, so you can just imagine the maneuvers they carry on.
A person can’t get lonesome for there is no cause for it. To hear the gleeful Jackies will make most the boys feel as though they were at home.
Some of the boys are rushing to go oversea and I myself would like to go into action, but I fear that we boys here will never see real service for the huns are playinging yankee doodle with their feet as they flee from the on coming Yanks.
I am going to say that 6 months of service would be good for any lad for when we were at home we were nothing more than what I’d call a whining baby at a mother’s feet. Since we have gone into the service it has caused us to feel like real men. It sure did go hard with some lads to give their first salute.
The most excitement of all is at chow time as we boys call it. If a person is real slow motioned he is likely to lose his share of the potatoes. When I first came I was unaccustomed to the way of serving meals but believe me I can take the jacket of a potato as quick as any of the Jackies now.
Well for fear my letter will occupy too much space in your paper, I will bring it to a close, asking the kind people of Randolph county to keep the home fires burning bright until victory is won and we boys come marching home with a gay and gallant tread.
A Jackie,
E. Moore
NOTES: Moore is writing from Great Lakes, Illinois.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Dear Editor:
If you will allow me space in your paper; will write a few lines to my dear old friends and relatives of dear old Randolph.
I like this place extremely well. There are more than 90,000 Jackies here, so you can just imagine the maneuvers they carry on.
A person can’t get lonesome for there is no cause for it. To hear the gleeful Jackies will make most the boys feel as though they were at home.
Some of the boys are rushing to go oversea and I myself would like to go into action, but I fear that we boys here will never see real service for the huns are playinging yankee doodle with their feet as they flee from the on coming Yanks.
I am going to say that 6 months of service would be good for any lad for when we were at home we were nothing more than what I’d call a whining baby at a mother’s feet. Since we have gone into the service it has caused us to feel like real men. It sure did go hard with some lads to give their first salute.
The most excitement of all is at chow time as we boys call it. If a person is real slow motioned he is likely to lose his share of the potatoes. When I first came I was unaccustomed to the way of serving meals but believe me I can take the jacket of a potato as quick as any of the Jackies now.
Well for fear my letter will occupy too much space in your paper, I will bring it to a close, asking the kind people of Randolph county to keep the home fires burning bright until victory is won and we boys come marching home with a gay and gallant tread.
A Jackie,
E. Moore
NOTES: Moore is writing from Great Lakes, Illinois.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD