TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE SEPTEMBER 6, 1918 P. 2
Dear Father and Mother:
I haven’t as yet learnd just what I can write. There are quite a few things I would like to say. Maybe when we get straightened out I will be permitted to write more. All I can say now is that I’m all right and feeling fine. I stood the trip fine; wasn’t bothered with sea sickness. Didn’t feel as well as I might have the second and third days out but didn’t get sick. I felt for a while as tho I had been wound up in a swing and let it unwind but it didn’t last long.
We were not bothered by any subs. Subs were reported in the vicinity once but if they were, they were not close enough to cause any excitement.
As to where I am I’m not permitted to say nor the date of this letter. I hope you have not bothered much about me for I have gotten along fine. Write me often because I will be anxious to get every letter you write. I will write you as often as I can and let you know how I am getting along. You have no doubt received the card announcing my safe arrival over seas. I mailed it the day I left the U. S. A. and it was released the day I landed here. The address on it is correct. Be sure and use all of it. For fear you have not received it I will give it to you again.
Let me know what’s going on around home and what the little kids are doing. Give Mrs. Smith my new address for I sure want the paper. Guess this is about all I can write now. Will write you again soon.
With love,
Wayne
464th Engineers Ponton Train A. E. F.
NOTES: The writer is only identified as “Wayne.”
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Dear Father and Mother:
I haven’t as yet learnd just what I can write. There are quite a few things I would like to say. Maybe when we get straightened out I will be permitted to write more. All I can say now is that I’m all right and feeling fine. I stood the trip fine; wasn’t bothered with sea sickness. Didn’t feel as well as I might have the second and third days out but didn’t get sick. I felt for a while as tho I had been wound up in a swing and let it unwind but it didn’t last long.
We were not bothered by any subs. Subs were reported in the vicinity once but if they were, they were not close enough to cause any excitement.
As to where I am I’m not permitted to say nor the date of this letter. I hope you have not bothered much about me for I have gotten along fine. Write me often because I will be anxious to get every letter you write. I will write you as often as I can and let you know how I am getting along. You have no doubt received the card announcing my safe arrival over seas. I mailed it the day I left the U. S. A. and it was released the day I landed here. The address on it is correct. Be sure and use all of it. For fear you have not received it I will give it to you again.
Let me know what’s going on around home and what the little kids are doing. Give Mrs. Smith my new address for I sure want the paper. Guess this is about all I can write now. Will write you again soon.
With love,
Wayne
464th Engineers Ponton Train A. E. F.
NOTES: The writer is only identified as “Wayne.”
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD