TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT JANUARY 16, 1919 P. 1
Nov. 25th
This is the first opportunity that I have had to write since the armistice was signed. I know that you were glad when the war was over and you may be sure that we fellows who were out in the mud were glad to know that we would have a roof over us this winter. I can’t give you the number of my division but it is the most famous division in the American E.F. and was in the lines when the armistice was signed and was one of the divisions picked to follow the Germans across the Rhine. We have been following them for over a week and have marched across Belgium and Luxemberg and are on the border of Germany. Can almost throw a rock over into Germany from where I am writing this letter. We will continue our march to the Rhine in a few days.
Mother, I won’t be there to eat Thanksgiving dinner with you this year. Guess I will eat it somewhere in Germany but hope to be home by spring as my division would be the first home.
Give my regards to all my friends and tell them I expect to be back before very long.
NOTES: Homer Dodds Pack was writing to his mother Mrs. Pack of Lowell, Arkansas. He was born on December 2, 1888 in Savanah, Tennessee and died on March 24, 1968. He is buried in the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Cave Springs, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Cpl. serving in Machine Gun Co 126th Infantry in World War 1. He departed on August 3, 1918 form Hoboken, NJ onboard the Leviathan. He was listed as a Sgt. in Camp Pike July Automatic Replacement Draft Co. #1 Infantry. He departed Brest, France on April 24, 1919 onboard the Luckenbach and arrived in Boston, Mass. on May 11, 1919. He was listed as serving as a Cpl. in Machine Gun Co 126th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON
Nov. 25th
This is the first opportunity that I have had to write since the armistice was signed. I know that you were glad when the war was over and you may be sure that we fellows who were out in the mud were glad to know that we would have a roof over us this winter. I can’t give you the number of my division but it is the most famous division in the American E.F. and was in the lines when the armistice was signed and was one of the divisions picked to follow the Germans across the Rhine. We have been following them for over a week and have marched across Belgium and Luxemberg and are on the border of Germany. Can almost throw a rock over into Germany from where I am writing this letter. We will continue our march to the Rhine in a few days.
Mother, I won’t be there to eat Thanksgiving dinner with you this year. Guess I will eat it somewhere in Germany but hope to be home by spring as my division would be the first home.
Give my regards to all my friends and tell them I expect to be back before very long.
NOTES: Homer Dodds Pack was writing to his mother Mrs. Pack of Lowell, Arkansas. He was born on December 2, 1888 in Savanah, Tennessee and died on March 24, 1968. He is buried in the Mount Hebron Cemetery in Cave Springs, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Cpl. serving in Machine Gun Co 126th Infantry in World War 1. He departed on August 3, 1918 form Hoboken, NJ onboard the Leviathan. He was listed as a Sgt. in Camp Pike July Automatic Replacement Draft Co. #1 Infantry. He departed Brest, France on April 24, 1919 onboard the Luckenbach and arrived in Boston, Mass. on May 11, 1919. He was listed as serving as a Cpl. in Machine Gun Co 126th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON