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; In Uncle Sams” Service on Land SeaI r■*' Brief Notes About Our Soldier And Sailor Boys.ANOTHKR INTERESTING LETTER I FROM COLWELL FRAKJES.Coi\veli Frakes has written a number of interesting letters to hta par-ortta, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Frakes. of ,Qorydonf which have heretofore bqep printed In the Democrat, and below we give another which was received by them last week:* Saumer Artillery School, *»umur, France, Dec. 26, 191 S. J^ear Mother and Father:—1 sup-pON* the first thing you will notice a-bout this letter is the date, and you will wonder what I was doing Christ-mak day that I could not write you. Wei! the boyaor rather we boys, were trying to have the best time that we coaid under existing circumstance*, and that took up the whole day, and pretty much all night. You could not have written a letter here yesterday even if you had wanted to do so ever so bad.Day before yesterday I received one letter from you dated Deeembr 3, and was sure glad to hear from you. as it had^been quite a while since I had a letter. I had a letter from Mrs. Code” Conrad at the same time. This is the first time I have received a letter from ’Co'de,’’ and I was ve y glad to hea*- from her. These lette « came in such a short time that it was almost like a visit home to read them.only speak for myself, as I have no way of knowing what others may have experienced. But any man who has gone thruogh this war and seen actual battle—experienced all that one must face—seen men dying with a smile on the fare and with a prayer-book or Bible in hand—any man who has experienced the fellowship of comrades in battle and witnessed the ( unselfishness shown by soldiers, their righteousness and their trust in God to take care of them, and returns to the States no better man than when he came over—well, he is certainly a poor sort of man. Don’t get the Impression that the good things of war were always to be seen, as they Were not. A good many men try to make others believe they are hard $uya, but when a man is face to face with death he turns, or the soul within him seeks a Higher Power to help him face it. This experience teaches him, or should teach him, to rely on this Power for assistance in exery-day life. There is some good in the most of us, and it is by cultivating and developing}j this little good that we can hope to1 become anything like we were intend-' ed to be.*No, T am not a preacher, so I Will . write along some other line for fear that I may get Into water that is too . deep for me.fhi.r vaii olt;lr muiholher or nnl
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Corydon Democrat
Corydon, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 12, 1919
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