TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MALVERN TMES JOURNAL JANUARY 24, 1918 P. 1
Camp Beauregard, La., Ja. 20, 1918
With pleasure I write my many old friends in Hot Spring County.
Health is very good here at present and we boys are enjoying life very well.
We are having some cold weather here at present, but Uncle Sam is clothing his boys well and we keep very comfortable. Although we boys are lovers of our friends and home we realize the fact that we must stand up for our country as our forefathers have done.
We often stop and think whether or not our friends ever think of the boys that are preparing to defend their country, for it is a sad thought to think that we are preparing for a duty that may carry us far away to some other country and some of us never to return. But don’t grieve after your sons, for if it must be done, we boys are willing to stand up for our country.
All that a mother or father can do it to pray for their son—not only for their son, but for other boys, for God’s people are going to win this war.
Yours truly,
Bascomea Parker
Co. C. 114th. Field Signal Battalion.
NOTES: Bascom Parker was born on October 25, 1894 and died on October 5, 1968. He is buried in the Price Cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His military headstone identified him as an Arkansas Pfc. In the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Camp Beauregard, La., Ja. 20, 1918
With pleasure I write my many old friends in Hot Spring County.
Health is very good here at present and we boys are enjoying life very well.
We are having some cold weather here at present, but Uncle Sam is clothing his boys well and we keep very comfortable. Although we boys are lovers of our friends and home we realize the fact that we must stand up for our country as our forefathers have done.
We often stop and think whether or not our friends ever think of the boys that are preparing to defend their country, for it is a sad thought to think that we are preparing for a duty that may carry us far away to some other country and some of us never to return. But don’t grieve after your sons, for if it must be done, we boys are willing to stand up for our country.
All that a mother or father can do it to pray for their son—not only for their son, but for other boys, for God’s people are going to win this war.
Yours truly,
Bascomea Parker
Co. C. 114th. Field Signal Battalion.
NOTES: Bascom Parker was born on October 25, 1894 and died on October 5, 1968. He is buried in the Price Cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His military headstone identified him as an Arkansas Pfc. In the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON