Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1918 — INTERESTING LETTER FROM SERGEANT ANDREW HURLEY [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING LETTER FROM SERGEANT ANDREW HURLEY

Camp Taylor, Ky., November 22, 1918.Dear Folks:— Will answer your letter I receive* a few days ago. lam getting along fine and dandy now since the “flu” is almost over. I don’t have to woric nearly so hard. At one time while the “flu” was so bad I was in charge of nine kitchefis and dt surp kept me busy keeping them going. We were feeding about 3,000 patients. But now I am in charge off the nurses’ home and it is somewhat different, but at times I think dt is as hard to please the 200 women as all the 3,000 men I was feeding an the Emergency hospital. ";•?-£.■•■• • Now that the war is over I suppose the boys will soon be going home. I don’t know just yet when I wiM be discharged, but hope it will be soon. They are discharging the officers’ school now. They discharged' about 500 today «nd will discharge more each day. Everybody seems anxious to get home. Work here is going on just the same as it did before the war was over.. The new hostess’ house is nearly done, and will sure be some fine place when finished. Tomorrow Louisville is putting on a big patriotic parade. It will be one

of the largest in the history of the city. Nearly every business place in the city is taking part. Most of Camp Taylor will be there. . I wish you foils were here to see it. Louisville is sure a patriotic city. They have gone over the top in each of the Liberty Loans, Red Cross drives, and in fact everything to help the khaki boys, and since the war is over some one suggested a monument in memory of the boys that had lost heir lives “over there,” and in a few hours they had give nthousands of dollars to 'build it. They are going to put all of the Louisville boys names on this monument whether they died fighting or from other causes. I think in the next thirty days there will be a lot of homes made glad, for >y that time our boys will nearly all be home. But, alas! Ttyere are many homes where there will be no glad home-coming. The light-hearted ad that so bravely bid his folks and friends good-bye is sleeping peacefully in some foreign land, and to heir memory the good people of Rensselaer should erect a monument. During the worst of the “flu” here have seen as many as a hundred caskets taken past my office a day. Those were the days to make a fellow wish he was at home. - Well, I expect I had 'better close for this time. Will write and tell you all about the parade next week. Tell all my friends to write me a line. I am as ever, your son, ✓ Sergt. Andrew Hurley. . General Del., Louisville, Ky.