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(•ke19OfaLETTERS FROMSOLDIERSmd«IAatiThe _____.....„ wwni _'s* received by Mrs. A| L. Thomas, ot *“• | Carpenter, from her town non, JamesI I J O *%/) 1~* n m* 1 4% V. U — . _ _. a -«*.\Sinica,and Carl, both of whom are in Camp v JLee. Va.Camp, Lee, Va.Dear Mother:Thi« evening trvinr tn « rft» **««» •UaftVyfixieP-nict5?i few lines to let you hear from us ib» j again. We are well and hope when 511 you get this letter it will find you the fed j same. Received your letter and picture and wa* more than glad to haarfrom you and to have your picture to take with me. I would like to have one of papa’s picture and one ^ of all our family. But I guess it i« too late now to send them.We will have some pictures mad3 Fi. 1 when we get landed and send same ti | them home. If we can't send them a. w« will bring them home with u«1 * ft: when it is over. I hope we will g.n *r-! to come home and bring some pic- s tures and the Kaiser’s sea In too.tIsmc,tser!f8-m!Iwanted to have some pictures madehere and kept putting it off and never did.crs-Ail the time we have been here wlt;_ have been on the run and didn’t have] atime to do anything. But we have« t made good soldiers in a short time] and that It what it takes to .protect c you and our home, so it's you we a are fighting for and it won’t take us s long so cheer up and don’t worry. We are going to do our best and,e that is all that is required of us—it; c has got to be done.Well mamma I won’t write much for I don’t m,nd g^lng as T have « t-] been away for some time and if I i •d go to writing home and studying c about everything we probably would r o get dissatisfied and it would make it, * '*• j all the worse and if I would write t k and tell you everything It would make* 1 d 1 you more uneasy, so it’* up to you1? :niri
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Aug 31, 1918
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