TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT NOVEMBER 14, 1918 P. 1
Hello Judy:
How are you and everyone else at good old Mt. View? I often think of the good old times we used to have at school and at the suppers. I saw Frank Guyll in camp but we were separated and I never did know where he went.
I have been here over two months and have been in the “Big Game” over a month.
France is a very interesting place but can’t tell you much about it today. It is a well improved country and the very best of roads are to be found all over the nation. I suppose you have read of “No Man’s Land.” I have gone over the top, across No Man’s Land, across the German trenches and far beyond. We captured a large territory and many thousands of prisoners in three days.
Believe me, there is something doing over here. I’ll tell more about it later.
Tell the people of Mt. View to write me and tell all the pupils hello for me. And if any of you people have any magazines you can spare I would be very glad to get them for they are very scarce on the front lines. You must not send any packages except magazines as we are not allowed packages unless we get permission. The packages take up too much room on the ship if we were all to get them.
You friend,
Samuel Young.
Co. L., 101 U.S. Inf., 20th Div. A.E.F.
NOTES: This letter was written by Samuel Young, a former school teacher from Avoca, Arkansas to one of his pupils Miss Julia Moore She lived at Mt. View, Arkansas near Garfield, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Hello Judy:
How are you and everyone else at good old Mt. View? I often think of the good old times we used to have at school and at the suppers. I saw Frank Guyll in camp but we were separated and I never did know where he went.
I have been here over two months and have been in the “Big Game” over a month.
France is a very interesting place but can’t tell you much about it today. It is a well improved country and the very best of roads are to be found all over the nation. I suppose you have read of “No Man’s Land.” I have gone over the top, across No Man’s Land, across the German trenches and far beyond. We captured a large territory and many thousands of prisoners in three days.
Believe me, there is something doing over here. I’ll tell more about it later.
Tell the people of Mt. View to write me and tell all the pupils hello for me. And if any of you people have any magazines you can spare I would be very glad to get them for they are very scarce on the front lines. You must not send any packages except magazines as we are not allowed packages unless we get permission. The packages take up too much room on the ship if we were all to get them.
You friend,
Samuel Young.
Co. L., 101 U.S. Inf., 20th Div. A.E.F.
NOTES: This letter was written by Samuel Young, a former school teacher from Avoca, Arkansas to one of his pupils Miss Julia Moore She lived at Mt. View, Arkansas near Garfield, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD