TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DEQUEEN BEE FEBRUARY 7, 1919 P. 2
I have been here for a month. I don’t know how long we will be in Germany. I hope it won’t be long, for I sure want to come home, and I don’t think it will be long until we are on our way.
When I get back I am coming down to see you and I want you to show me a good time. I don’t aim to do anything for a month but visit my people and eat.
I can tell you one thing about the war–we sure gave them hell. You should have been here when the last gun was fired and heard the boys yell for joy.
If I ever get back I will tell you of my times on the front. I went over the top six times. That is when you think your time has come–when you go over the top. I was in two of the worst battles of the war. Never saw the like in my life. But the Yanks put the Huns over the hill. They soon found out that we were not playing with them.
When I get back I can tell you more about my life in France.
Tell May to have me a fine cake cooked, for I haven’t eaten a cake since I left the dear old U.S.A.
NOTES: Homer Smith was born on April 1, 1895 in Provo, Arkansas and died on October 28, 1960. He is buried in the Tushka Cemetery in Tushka, Oklahoma. His military headstone identifies him as a Oklahoma Private Infantry serving in World War I. He enlisted on September 22, 1917 and was discharged on August 7, 1919. He departed Brest, France on July 16, 1919 onboard the Mobile and arrived in Hoboken, NH on July 27, 1919. He was listed as a Private serving in Co. D 47th Infantry 4th Division. He was writing to a friend in Provo.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
I have been here for a month. I don’t know how long we will be in Germany. I hope it won’t be long, for I sure want to come home, and I don’t think it will be long until we are on our way.
When I get back I am coming down to see you and I want you to show me a good time. I don’t aim to do anything for a month but visit my people and eat.
I can tell you one thing about the war–we sure gave them hell. You should have been here when the last gun was fired and heard the boys yell for joy.
If I ever get back I will tell you of my times on the front. I went over the top six times. That is when you think your time has come–when you go over the top. I was in two of the worst battles of the war. Never saw the like in my life. But the Yanks put the Huns over the hill. They soon found out that we were not playing with them.
When I get back I can tell you more about my life in France.
Tell May to have me a fine cake cooked, for I haven’t eaten a cake since I left the dear old U.S.A.
NOTES: Homer Smith was born on April 1, 1895 in Provo, Arkansas and died on October 28, 1960. He is buried in the Tushka Cemetery in Tushka, Oklahoma. His military headstone identifies him as a Oklahoma Private Infantry serving in World War I. He enlisted on September 22, 1917 and was discharged on August 7, 1919. He departed Brest, France on July 16, 1919 onboard the Mobile and arrived in Hoboken, NH on July 27, 1919. He was listed as a Private serving in Co. D 47th Infantry 4th Division. He was writing to a friend in Provo.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD