Corp. W. D. Purcell
November 21, 1918
“You have no idea how we love to hear from home and to feel that you remember us. We can fight a heap better when we’re reminded once in a while that our loved ones are helping us by keeping us in touch with home and sacrificing in numerous ways that we may be more comfortable.”
George Bankston
July 16, 1918. The Rhode Island
“It is just beginning to seem like 1919 to me and it will be a happy year I am sure because it means that I am coming back to the only country on earth with all my feet and hands still attached to me.
“Don’t close the station until all of us are out of France. I would miss your letters and I want to see all the folks at the station and thank them for their backing and the interest taken in the boys.”
Corp. Wm. D. Purcell
January, 1919. Somewhere in France
“My chum called to me and we counted two hundred air planes going over to Germany and they were all in sight at one time and they made me think of a flock of wild geese back in the States.”