TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 25, 1918 P. 3
Camp Beauregard, La.,
Editor Independent:
If you will allow me space in your paper I will try to write a few lines to the people at home.
We are enjoying life at Camp Beauregard and like Louisiana very well, but of course it is not like dear old Arkansas to us.
We are having some fine weather here but it is very cold; has rained but little since we arrived here.
Our squad is quarantined on account of measles, but we are well cared for, but we sometimes have the blues. We are located in a little pine grove and all we can hear is the song of the pine.
Our company certainly does feed us well, but we hate to put them to so much trouble, for they have to carry our food to us.
The Y. M. C. A. man came over to see us yesterday, and held religious services, which we enjoyed very much for it made us feel like we were at home. The Y. M. C. A. is certainly a fine thing. They furnish us with stationary, and also good reading material. Words cannot express our appreciation for the Y. M. M. C. A.
Don’t know how long we will be quarantined, but think it will last just for a short while, say 8 or 10 days, and we’ve been here already 5 days. No doubt some of the people at home think our joining the army was all uncalled for, but in my opinion we are fighting for all that is right, civilized and humane, and against a power which threatens the existence of all the rights we prize and the freedom we enjoy. I think we will never have an opportunity to do so much for our country or the advancement of the world’s progress, for I believe we are fighting a power who, if that power wins, will set the world back many centuries, and deprive us of our democracy which our forefathers so dearly gained. I am not only willing to give my time to my country, but my whole life, I am in it to a finish.
Alva P. Sanderson
Q. M. C., 39th Division,
(Formerly old Co. E., 154th Inf., Newport, Ark.)
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TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Camp Beauregard, La.,
Editor Independent:
If you will allow me space in your paper I will try to write a few lines to the people at home.
We are enjoying life at Camp Beauregard and like Louisiana very well, but of course it is not like dear old Arkansas to us.
We are having some fine weather here but it is very cold; has rained but little since we arrived here.
Our squad is quarantined on account of measles, but we are well cared for, but we sometimes have the blues. We are located in a little pine grove and all we can hear is the song of the pine.
Our company certainly does feed us well, but we hate to put them to so much trouble, for they have to carry our food to us.
The Y. M. C. A. man came over to see us yesterday, and held religious services, which we enjoyed very much for it made us feel like we were at home. The Y. M. C. A. is certainly a fine thing. They furnish us with stationary, and also good reading material. Words cannot express our appreciation for the Y. M. M. C. A.
Don’t know how long we will be quarantined, but think it will last just for a short while, say 8 or 10 days, and we’ve been here already 5 days. No doubt some of the people at home think our joining the army was all uncalled for, but in my opinion we are fighting for all that is right, civilized and humane, and against a power which threatens the existence of all the rights we prize and the freedom we enjoy. I think we will never have an opportunity to do so much for our country or the advancement of the world’s progress, for I believe we are fighting a power who, if that power wins, will set the world back many centuries, and deprive us of our democracy which our forefathers so dearly gained. I am not only willing to give my time to my country, but my whole life, I am in it to a finish.
Alva P. Sanderson
Q. M. C., 39th Division,
(Formerly old Co. E., 154th Inf., Newport, Ark.)
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON