TRANSCRIBED FROM THE WHITE RIVER JOURNAL OCTOBER 1918 P. 1
Aug. 25, 1918.
Miss Ida Webb,
dear sister:
I will take the time to write you a few lines to let you all know that I am well, and hope these few lines will find you all the same.
Well, I don’t know how to commence for it has been so long since I got any letters I don’t know how to write one. Say, we are having some pretty weather now. We are back at rest now, but we have to drill; I had rather do that than fight. Say I am going to preaching today. I wish you could go to French preaching and see them. It would be like a show, they don’t do anything like we do. Say I see in the papers that there is going to be a new draft. I guess this will get Conie, I hope he won’t have to come to France, I don’t think that he will, it don’t look like the war will last much longer the way it is going now. Say, we get new men from the U. S. every week or two, but I have never seen any one that I knew, but there are some good boys with me. We have as good a time as we can. My friend is a big man, about like Sterlin Wesson, we have a time. Say when I come home, I am going to bring a pair of wooden shoes with me and show you what the French people wear. Well I will have to close hoping to hear from you soon, so good by.
Will Webb
Co. M 23 Inft.
A.E.F. France
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Aug. 25, 1918.
Miss Ida Webb,
dear sister:
I will take the time to write you a few lines to let you all know that I am well, and hope these few lines will find you all the same.
Well, I don’t know how to commence for it has been so long since I got any letters I don’t know how to write one. Say, we are having some pretty weather now. We are back at rest now, but we have to drill; I had rather do that than fight. Say I am going to preaching today. I wish you could go to French preaching and see them. It would be like a show, they don’t do anything like we do. Say I see in the papers that there is going to be a new draft. I guess this will get Conie, I hope he won’t have to come to France, I don’t think that he will, it don’t look like the war will last much longer the way it is going now. Say, we get new men from the U. S. every week or two, but I have never seen any one that I knew, but there are some good boys with me. We have as good a time as we can. My friend is a big man, about like Sterlin Wesson, we have a time. Say when I come home, I am going to bring a pair of wooden shoes with me and show you what the French people wear. Well I will have to close hoping to hear from you soon, so good by.
Will Webb
Co. M 23 Inft.
A.E.F. France
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD