TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN OCTOBER 26, 1917 P. 1
Camp Pike, Ark.
Dear Tom:
I will tell you how I like the army. I like it very well. I think that the longer I stay the better I will like it. Well Tom, the boys that left when I did all seem to be satistied. I do not think any of them have the blues. I don’t think the army is like home but I guess we will have to call the army our home and be satisfied. I don’t suppose that boys who have never been here realize what it is like, and I guess they will be surprised when they get here. When I got here and saw the other boys it made me think of home, for there were so many here that I knew. They all seem to be satisfied, and I talk to them every night. You can tell them all in your paper that I like it. We have plenty to eat. We take our dishes and pass them around our selves and if we don’t get what we want we go the second time. Publish this in the Bulletin so my folks will know what my address is.
Roy Parton
NOTES: Lee Roy Parton was a member of Co. L. 346th Infantry. He was born on February 4, 1894 in Mountain Home, Arkansas and died on June 14, 1980 in Yellville, Arkansas. He is buried in the Quality Ridge Cemetery at Mountain Home. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army.
LAURE SHURLEY
Camp Pike, Ark.
Dear Tom:
I will tell you how I like the army. I like it very well. I think that the longer I stay the better I will like it. Well Tom, the boys that left when I did all seem to be satistied. I do not think any of them have the blues. I don’t think the army is like home but I guess we will have to call the army our home and be satisfied. I don’t suppose that boys who have never been here realize what it is like, and I guess they will be surprised when they get here. When I got here and saw the other boys it made me think of home, for there were so many here that I knew. They all seem to be satisfied, and I talk to them every night. You can tell them all in your paper that I like it. We have plenty to eat. We take our dishes and pass them around our selves and if we don’t get what we want we go the second time. Publish this in the Bulletin so my folks will know what my address is.
Roy Parton
NOTES: Lee Roy Parton was a member of Co. L. 346th Infantry. He was born on February 4, 1894 in Mountain Home, Arkansas and died on June 14, 1980 in Yellville, Arkansas. He is buried in the Quality Ridge Cemetery at Mountain Home. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army.
LAURE SHURLEY