October 6, 1918
“I was indeed surprised, a few days since, to receive a letter from you good people of my old home town reminding me that you still remember me and appreciate the effort that we boys are making to do our ‘bit’ for the just and righteous cause in which we are all enlisted.
“Your promise to write us from time to time of the items of interest at home especially gratifying, for local news nowadays, possesses far more interest and diversion for us than does the doings and happenings of the remainder of the ‘great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world’.”
C. T. T.
July 10, 1918
“It makes one feel good to know that he is remembered back home, not only by his parents, but by his friends as well. You don’t know, you can’t know, just how much good you are doing and just how it makes us feel when stationed at a remote camp, where we know no one, to get a letter from friends at home, who are interested in us. It makes us feel as though nothing on earth could prevent us from winning this war—and we shall win.”
R. D. C.
June 21, 1918
“We leave this port the tenth of December and proceed nine hundred miles off this coast and meet President Wilson and his party, who are coming over to the Peace Conference on the George Washington, convoyed by the super-dreadnaught, Pennsylvania, and six destroyers.
“There are nine big dreadnaughts in our fleet lying here who will go out and convoy them to Brest, France.”