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Hester Wis OVer %PHi Top Five Times Whill vHe Was**•Tke Front |ii ; FranceCorpora! . Joseph Hester of Com pouy J, |Sixtli • Infantry, writes to his inotl.vor he follows:America 11 Expeditionary Forces,• .October 3, 19J8.Deaf Mother: :Just a’few lines to let you know I a.m til the best of health, hoping this fiult;],s yqu and fa I her the same. 1 am still enjoying life the sumo na- It haa stopped mining and lias turned ooltl but’ 1 guess it is almost time for. cold u*es( her. I‘guess tlcc Intel* rvo getting it lmmled to them about right; now. How do the Dutch fivouod • home li ho it? I suppose they hovo to keep their mouthy shut.received two letters from you tins movnjng.-; One was dated tho 5)th of August' ft nd tho other one tho :i3lh.have received Tho .Tonriuil for J weeks. , I will bring this to n close hoping to hear from you soon.JOE.lining lids finds you tho samo,\v£s fccliiig pvctfy b\p\i for a while vfih myj.lomnch^-bu.t I think I.goj t\ little too muuhgas, but not enough to knock£/ino 'out, hut I nm alright nosv and.foa iny.wny to Oormaiiy I think. . It,is hnvd^lo tell when I-will be homo but it is a sure thing I'll get there some time, if T liave good luck. T fovfeot to tel! you, J, have been niado. corpopil.., .'fho Gevnmns me turning alt tho allied prisoners ,back. :I liuvb heeii.ovor the top live times since. I’ve beeji over licvo and cnino through without a seratch, except onco.I was hit on the arm wild a rook but was not hurt. y,»n e,»r. aliow this .to tho rest of tin: family$iitem joras I have not writWi to qnilo a while. I will bring this to n close, hoping to hear from voij soon.• JOR. ■r-itNovember 20, .1018 Dear -Mother:Just a few lines to let you know am at ill alive and in the heal of health, hoping, this finds you tho same.It has heert quite a whilo sineo I Wrote to yon or any of the rest. We ware on Ihn lines, something liko 50 ‘lays, and that is the reason J did not write. Wo wcro also in the lines when it came to an end. We are, at tho present time, pretty close to Germany. I do not kndw whether we ;»lt;• going into (iormany or not. Tell Kale 1 belong to the 5th division, and tell the rest whut I wrote.1 am going to send *75 home; $25 is to go io tho Christmas colloid ion. 1C it does not get there in lime, put some of the other in, I sent home. T sent you $50 some time in September. I do noL kr.ow whether you got it or not.I have bean over lire top two or three times since I wrote to you tho lust time but it was not so easy ns the first time. Well, I’ll bring this to a close, hoping to hear from yon soon. 1 have, received about a dozen let I era from you. .TOT*;.rk1118November 22 Dear pother:Just u Vow lines to let you know 1 am alive anil in the best of health, and enjoying life the samo ns ever,DA 0 'S I .ETTEIt. •November 2-1,1118Dear Father:Just a few lines to lei you kr.ow I nm still alive and in llie Inst of health, and.enjoying life the samo n ever, hoping this finds you l ne Game.] was feeling prcWy bum for a while but uin alrigfit noi'jIt 1ms Icon ijukc n while siooo I wrote but vvv wore m the front far 50 days and v/eve tb-rc when it eamo (o an end and th.-l is tlm reason I did not write, before. \Vc are at I ho present time in a-little town named Spin court. There am very few people heje, one or t'Vo fiinnlioa. There nvo a bunch of prisoners passing through here every day on Jh’oiv way liomc, mostly English am? I'Tench. Tlioy any a happy bunch. J nm sure glad the war is over, hut T would not have missed what ? saw of it for all the World. I liavo been over the top five times and on the lines about GO days altogether, ss 1 guess 1 saw my part of it. \Ve were the first uurs across-the Meuse river. We went across'in a vowbnat about 1 o’clock one night, and rlvnvc I lie Germans back so they could pat a bridge over.Well, J‘ll bring this to u close, hoping to hear from you soon.- • v i . JOE.P. S'.—We me on our way to Germany, so they loll me. I do not know whether it is hue or not.Corporal Joseph Ucster,Co. I, lt;*Ui.. luVaulrY,A- '*• ‘V.fflS h F-is fnicndiwr sftvnral davs here with i were ihe gncst.s .Smuhw oi 31 v. and
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Hamilton Evening Journal
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Fri, Jan 10, 1919
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