TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT JUNE 18, 1918 P. 1
We have a nice place here, a 300 room hotel, for a hospital. I have a room with a private bath on the second floor. The place costs the government $99,000 per year. I am all o. k. except my teeth, and am very short-winded. I doubt if I will be able to do any hard work soon, but since I hit the boat in France I have gained twenty pounds. I may stay here all summer. I hope, however that I will go home on a furlough or a discharge.
Well, Joe, I had some awful experiences in France. I might tell you about it, and you might read about it, and you probably would think I was kidding you. It would take a deformed mind to imagine what takes place over there. But, nevertheless, I would not take anything for my trip, and if they can fix me up I want to go back to France where the big show is going.
NOTES: This is a partial letter written by John L. Younger, Jr. to his brother Joe of Newport, Arkansas. John was recovering from wounds and gas at the hospital in Camp May in New Jersey. He was said to be the first Newport soldier to be wounded in the war. He was born on September 29, 1888 and died on September 4, 1940. He is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as Montana, 153 Depot Brigade. He was a horseshoer.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
We have a nice place here, a 300 room hotel, for a hospital. I have a room with a private bath on the second floor. The place costs the government $99,000 per year. I am all o. k. except my teeth, and am very short-winded. I doubt if I will be able to do any hard work soon, but since I hit the boat in France I have gained twenty pounds. I may stay here all summer. I hope, however that I will go home on a furlough or a discharge.
Well, Joe, I had some awful experiences in France. I might tell you about it, and you might read about it, and you probably would think I was kidding you. It would take a deformed mind to imagine what takes place over there. But, nevertheless, I would not take anything for my trip, and if they can fix me up I want to go back to France where the big show is going.
NOTES: This is a partial letter written by John L. Younger, Jr. to his brother Joe of Newport, Arkansas. John was recovering from wounds and gas at the hospital in Camp May in New Jersey. He was said to be the first Newport soldier to be wounded in the war. He was born on September 29, 1888 and died on September 4, 1940. He is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as Montana, 153 Depot Brigade. He was a horseshoer.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON