TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWARK JOURNAL FEBRUARY 27, 1919 P. 5
Editor Journal.
Please give me just a little corner, as I would like to drop my many friends in and around Newark a few lines.
I am a marine soldier at Paris Island, S.C. I enlisted in March 17, 1918, and was sent here, where I took two months training. Instead of sending me to France, they kept me here and assigned me to a job as deck hand on a passenger boat. I worked at that about six weeks and went from there to the wheel (pilot) and have been at that job for some time.
So you see that I don't know so much about the war. I have a brother over there that I hope will get back to tell us boys that didn't get to go, something about war, and we can tell them something about work, for we surely know.
I feel safe in saying that out of the 30 thousand men we have here (or have had) that there was not a dozen who didn't want to go across. But the war is now over and there is many a happy boy returning home.
Don't know just when I will get out myself, but don't think it will be so very long. I have had the pleasure of reading The Journal each Monday, and want to thank my uncle, Elmer Mayhan, many times for it.
Well, I have told you all about myself, and my work, so about the weather. The weather is certainly fine. Never gets very cold. We had ice only one night this winter. We have lots of good heavy clothes, and have no use for them. It rains lots here, but is usually warm and the heavy rains never bother here; never causes any overflows. All the overflows we have is the tide which comes every 12 hours. It is like the moon; it is a little later each day. Full moon we have full tides. It comes up six hours and goes down six hours, so you see we have upstream and downstream both ways.
Well, I guess I have written about all The Journal will allow me room for, so I am going to quit by wishing all the boys to drop a few lines in The Journal, as I never overlook anything in it.
Corp. A. A. Rutledge,
U.S.M.C. Paris Island, S.C. Supply Co.-Care Docks.
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TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Editor Journal.
Please give me just a little corner, as I would like to drop my many friends in and around Newark a few lines.
I am a marine soldier at Paris Island, S.C. I enlisted in March 17, 1918, and was sent here, where I took two months training. Instead of sending me to France, they kept me here and assigned me to a job as deck hand on a passenger boat. I worked at that about six weeks and went from there to the wheel (pilot) and have been at that job for some time.
So you see that I don't know so much about the war. I have a brother over there that I hope will get back to tell us boys that didn't get to go, something about war, and we can tell them something about work, for we surely know.
I feel safe in saying that out of the 30 thousand men we have here (or have had) that there was not a dozen who didn't want to go across. But the war is now over and there is many a happy boy returning home.
Don't know just when I will get out myself, but don't think it will be so very long. I have had the pleasure of reading The Journal each Monday, and want to thank my uncle, Elmer Mayhan, many times for it.
Well, I have told you all about myself, and my work, so about the weather. The weather is certainly fine. Never gets very cold. We had ice only one night this winter. We have lots of good heavy clothes, and have no use for them. It rains lots here, but is usually warm and the heavy rains never bother here; never causes any overflows. All the overflows we have is the tide which comes every 12 hours. It is like the moon; it is a little later each day. Full moon we have full tides. It comes up six hours and goes down six hours, so you see we have upstream and downstream both ways.
Well, I guess I have written about all The Journal will allow me room for, so I am going to quit by wishing all the boys to drop a few lines in The Journal, as I never overlook anything in it.
Corp. A. A. Rutledge,
U.S.M.C. Paris Island, S.C. Supply Co.-Care Docks.
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TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD