TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC OCTOBER 3, 1918 P. 8
I received your letter yesterday. It is needless to say that I was very proud to hear from home, as we seldom get letters now, don’t know why we don’t get any more mail. No, I do not need any money. We don’t need much money here, the government furnishes us chewing and smoking. We have plenty of eats, chicken and eggs, but we pay six Francs per doz. for eggs, in our money, 1.0$.
The French girls are cute, but give me American girls and American people, first, all the time. We now have the chance of seeing two or three air fights every day. The French brought down a plane yesterday, I saw it fall. The shrapnel shells burst around us quite often. We laugh at it. Tell Daddy to keep the home fires burning and not to worry about me, for I am in the game until the Germans bow their heads in shame and repentance. I may fall before it is over, but I could not fall for a better cause.
I am sleeping in a dugout with six other Pine Bluff boys. Laren Braswell is one of my closest friends.Hope brother Autie is as well satisfied as I am. Would enjoy some of P.B.s ice cream, cake and candy.
NOTES: This letter was written by Lester A. Pack from New York. He was serving in the 116 Inf. Co. I A. P. C. 765. A. E. F.
TRANSCRIBED BY: ISAAC WOLTER
I received your letter yesterday. It is needless to say that I was very proud to hear from home, as we seldom get letters now, don’t know why we don’t get any more mail. No, I do not need any money. We don’t need much money here, the government furnishes us chewing and smoking. We have plenty of eats, chicken and eggs, but we pay six Francs per doz. for eggs, in our money, 1.0$.
The French girls are cute, but give me American girls and American people, first, all the time. We now have the chance of seeing two or three air fights every day. The French brought down a plane yesterday, I saw it fall. The shrapnel shells burst around us quite often. We laugh at it. Tell Daddy to keep the home fires burning and not to worry about me, for I am in the game until the Germans bow their heads in shame and repentance. I may fall before it is over, but I could not fall for a better cause.
I am sleeping in a dugout with six other Pine Bluff boys. Laren Braswell is one of my closest friends.Hope brother Autie is as well satisfied as I am. Would enjoy some of P.B.s ice cream, cake and candy.
NOTES: This letter was written by Lester A. Pack from New York. He was serving in the 116 Inf. Co. I A. P. C. 765. A. E. F.
TRANSCRIBED BY: ISAAC WOLTER