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LETTERS FROM SOLDIERSThereceived by Mr*. A L. Thomas, o* « Carpenter, from her town son, James 1 and Carl, both of whom are in Camp 1 T , Va. tICamp, Lee, Va, hDear Mother: tI I*1*3* evening trying to write you a 1 in few lines to let you hear from us 3 | again. We are well and hope when j 3 sn you get this letter it will find you the tel same. Received your letter and pic- j 1 tte.ture and was more than glad to haar ic from you and to have your picture to take with me. I would like to have one of papa’s picture and ona p- of all our family. But I guess it is m too late now to send them.Ic We will have some picture* madsFt. I when we get landed and send some n of them home. If we can't send them we will hring them home with uswhen It is over. I hope we will g-'-t j 1to come home and bring some pictures and the Kaiser’s scalp too. We wanted to have some pictures made here and kept putting it off and neveridid . 1Al! the time we have been here we lt;have been on the run and didn’t have itime to do anything. But we have i lt;made good soldiers in * short time and that it what it takes to ^protectyou and our home, so it s you weare fighting for and it won’t take us i . I^ng *o cheer up and don’t worry,“ We are going to do our best and 9 that is all that is required of us—It huMF got tp be done, y ||11 Well mamma I won’t write much r for I don’t mind g^lng as I have Jj been away for some time and if I d go to writing home and studying ibout everything we probably wouldo get dissatisfied and it would make it,e all the worse and if I would write a and tell you everything it would make J | you more uneasy, so it’* up to you!
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Sat, Aug 31, 1918
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