TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MENA WEEKLY STAR OCTOBER 4, 1918 P. 4
I would be glad to hear from most anybody, because mail is the most welcome of anything when you’re a long, long way from home. If you have any friends who like to write, tell them to try writing to a strange doughboy once. I’m sure to enjoy it.
However a couple of heavy caliber shells woke us up in time for breakfast this morning. Our own guns send over a few German rations at intervals. We have to hear them once in a while or would be lonesome after living among a steady downpour of all sizes and kinds of shells.
In a way war is a great business and we like it, but there is a terrible side to it as well. Nevertheless, we are glad we can serve and take whatever comes, so that our loved ones at home might live in a beautiful and lasting peace. Many soldiers will get to enjoy that peace; many will not. A man’s life isn’t worth a sou over here.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Musician F. A. Orr to his cousin Miss Ina Alexander of Grannis, Polk County, Arkansas. He was a member of the 16th U. S. Inf. Band, A.E.F.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.
I would be glad to hear from most anybody, because mail is the most welcome of anything when you’re a long, long way from home. If you have any friends who like to write, tell them to try writing to a strange doughboy once. I’m sure to enjoy it.
However a couple of heavy caliber shells woke us up in time for breakfast this morning. Our own guns send over a few German rations at intervals. We have to hear them once in a while or would be lonesome after living among a steady downpour of all sizes and kinds of shells.
In a way war is a great business and we like it, but there is a terrible side to it as well. Nevertheless, we are glad we can serve and take whatever comes, so that our loved ones at home might live in a beautiful and lasting peace. Many soldiers will get to enjoy that peace; many will not. A man’s life isn’t worth a sou over here.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Musician F. A. Orr to his cousin Miss Ina Alexander of Grannis, Polk County, Arkansas. He was a member of the 16th U. S. Inf. Band, A.E.F.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT.