Hammond Times, Volume 13, Number 153, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1918 — Page 10

THE TIMES.

Monday, December 9. 1913

Letters from Soldiers Written to the Home Folks From This Side and the Other Side of tho Water.

PROPER BLOUSES THE IMPORTANT TOPIC AFTER THE WINTER SUITS ARE CHOSEN

From Capt. Kingwill. On Active Service -with tho A. E. V.. October 30, 1918. Hy Dear Mother and Sister: I suppose you are anxiously waiting to hear from mo as in the past six woeks I have been aMo to send you only A rostcard. It has been a mighty busy Fix wetka end in that time much has

happened. Right now I am on a four.

days' leave ar.J isiting one of the b;g-gf-st cities in northern France. Tins uae may militate against getting a de'cnt eort of a leave later, hat the eight fi'lcers, who wern given permission, deIJed that we had better taka what we could get- "We were those who started ir. the last fight, stuck it through and brought our men (those who were left) back- It was a Ions hard session, hut wa did good work and immediately when being relieved fron tho front line, I was sent' for to take a physical exam-J-&;ion for promotion and by the time thia reaches you, I expect to bo a taplain. Ia addition to the honor, this will mean increased ray and increased commutation, fo I may be able to send you niTO each month than 1 have ben sending-. Was in quite a bit of action In a nasty country to fight in and more than once I called upon whatever Gods there be to look down on your little son and i.) l!sten to your p.-a.ver and lody's. because I know If prayers are answered surely yours would be. It wasn't a i r.se of a yellow streak on my part, because no son of yours could be a coward, but when death is striking: all around, no man can honestly say he does not think of those he lovta and wonders whether he will ever see them

fifialn. It is a trying experience to

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out in a wet field in the dim and hazy j

hght of early morning with our guns roaring- continual thunder behind and Herman shells in counter-barrage crashing in front and about us. Out of the darkness comes the cry of those who are hit and it is a great relief to Set up and go forward. I had tho enjoyable experience of taking-, with a very little Polish boy, thirty-one prisoners. Including one capt u in. There tru also two machine guns. It was perhaps a fool hardy stunt, but I was mail clean through and so was lie. All I got was a bullet through the breeches above the knee lie got one in the hand which traveled up his arm arid struck in elbow. It didn't keep him from using hbj bayonet, however, and when I told him to move them along, he did so with a great good will giving them a couple of Inches of steel in th more fleshy regions of the Dutch anatomy. On the other hand, when no took the prisoners I would have been justified in deliberately killing them for they had rrotended in the dim haze to be our men, had motioned us to ccmo on and then when we got close, swept their guns on us. Had it not been for the information we desired to get from their captain and had it not been for the pitious cries of a young German about 20 years old. I would not have cared much if our fellows had "gion thtm the gat.' This young- fellow looked at me so fearfully when I pointed my Colt at him and his blue

eyes were so pleading that I thought, well, he had a mother too, and when I thought of that I droppexi my arm. winked at. him and smiled. Ton should have seen him! If God enters any c redit for that let him i redit it not to

mo, but to the love my mother has

Dome tor me and my gratefulness to her. Isn't it odd how a man's emotions can go from one extreme to another almost in the same minute? On ano-.her occasion I was talking with a man when a "whizz-bang" (an Austrian SS) took his arm almost off. I had to carry Mm through the brush a half kilometer, my whole side wet and warm with his bleed. It was a great day for me. aid oddly enough, it was with a German rifle that I did my best work. That riflo (made in Dantzig) was retribution personified and altho it sounds like a wild fable I know people will say I am an awful liar, I actually killed that day four of the enemy and wounded seven others. It was simply a case of wonderful Iu:k in sniping and running Into a party of Germans that I could see but who couldn't see me. Tell Uncle I got one expressly for him. I really did. I was about to move when I thought of Uncle Charley and resolved to gt a Hun for him. Sure enough, in a minute one appeared carrying machine gun f.mmuni-

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(He started running. Thm I fired again.

He dropped one ammunition box and ran again. He almost reached a patch of woods when I fired the last bullet in the clip. I drew the sight liner and finer and then let go. Ho stopped just as though he had bumped into a stone wall. His arm flung into tho air above his head and then he crumpled up in a heap, moved a little and lay quiet. "Was I sorry I had killed my fellow-man? Not a bit of it I howled with delight and cried out. "with the last shot: I got him with my last shot." I saw him there the r.evt day still laying in the same position, his arms over his head. Tou would understand better how we got into all this guerilla warfare were I able to tell you where we were, for I am sure the papers must have

been full. ' "Whatever their sins may be the Ger- ! mans are soldiers and their machine euns are nastv things to run Into. Of

I Journeyed further south to Camp Greenleaf. located at Fort Oglethorpe. Ga. At tills, th'i largest medical officers' training- camp in the world, I became a full-fledged member of the medical department. Our company- was a transfer organization, quartering equipping new arrivals and giving them a little training beforo assigning them to various hospitals and overseas units. As a member of the office staff I learned to appreciate, to quite an extent, the workings of government machinery. Hellcve me. we were kept busy all the time. After five weeks at Camp Greenleaf I decided to move again. The weather man was giving us too much heat and I alfio reasoned my chances of going overseas would be materially enhanced if I could get nearer to poir.t of embarkation. Well. I finally landed n Boston, and proceeded to one of the forts that

help protect the harbor. During tne

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course, ours are also as they will find past four months, as a member of the out If they ever attempt an offensive. hospital corps. I've dene everything. At present, peace is a possibility and My all-around experience has cjuall-

I suppose you arc all hoping so. Meanwhile the guns are still roaring and when we hear a particularly loud one. we laugh ironically and say, "another peace report." Of course I am spending considerable money while in this city, but X am entitled to it. Have had quite a few letters from you. Glad you are all so well. Had a German sniper's helmet for Uncle and one for Dick, but both v-re thrown off the kitchen wagon by an inspector. "Will try to get another. More later. Am busy seeing Hastily, but lovingly, HlLNTtT. Don't forget to remember me to Van and "White.

From David Rosenthal. Post Hospital. Ft. Revere, Mass. Editor Times. Hammond, Ind.

Dear Sir: Greetings to my East rersonaliy Cbicago friends. The exacting nature I am.

and press of military duties has been responsible for my silence. The past six months have glided by with amazing rapidity. Camp Taylor, Ky.. saw me only one month. "While there I served for a short time in the psychology department or intelligence office. From here

fled me for almost every profession and trade. My wosk here has been done in the record office. During the influenza epidemic, however, I turned assistant M. l. far a while. Our fort lead all others In the barber. "We did not lose a single case, a record we are all proud of. Fate decreed that I stay on this side of the Atlantic and I'm certain I've tried to do my bit over here. Am glad many of my friends have had hich honors conferred upon them. The old town is one hundred rercent efficient all alons the lin. Its patriotism can be spelled wi'.h cap. letters. "Well, now that it's all over across

' the pond we'll all be glad to meet j atrain and relate our experiences to one a not her. j With cheeriest bellows to all my i friends and hoping to greet them all

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From Harry Drackert. Somewhere in Northern Russia. OctobPr 6, 151S. Dear Folks at Home; Just received my first mail this mornin? since I left Camp Custer, which is some tim ago. Well I sure was glad to get these letters, even if they were written some time In July. It is news for me from home just the same. I grot ;eorse Mayer's letter, Hugh's and the rest were from you and Julia. Well, the weather over here is about tho same cool and rainy. We had a light snow which looked mote like frost than snow. I guossod we will get snow enough in about a month. See by one of Julia's letters that Charlie has left for Camp. Well I suppose she hates to see him go, because whe thought a lot of him. She gave me the address of Charlie, but writing paper is so scarce hove one is in luck when he gets to write one letter a week, instead of half a dozen. After we got our mail this morning, they issued us this writing paper, if it would not he for this issue. 1 don't know where I would get paper to write with. They send trail each Sunday from our Company, but I have had no paper to write on. so I did not

send but one letter.

I see by your letter that Charlie Mayer is still In IndianapolisX That makes it nice for him. He can get hi. me once in a while so that is not s-n bad. I see you people had your annual picnic., and glad to see by one. of your letters that you had a .good tini". l is a wonder they got time to have a picnic as the letters said it was so hot in Hammond that Hugh nad to work half of the night. The flrn letter I opened I found Queen's picture. It is a very good picture of hi r and also see that she was missing for a while and that was down in the coal bin. Wpi, I don't know what else to write. Could ttll you many things that I can not write. Now that writing paper is so scarce you better give Julia tills letter to read and tell her that I will try and write to her soon. And I knowlf she understood the situation she would not ?ay anything. At the time of this letter I am still in the best of health and when It reaches you 1 wish it to find you all the same. Guess I had better close with love and" best wishes to yau all. I am as ever, your loving son. HARRY E. DRACKERT. Company M. 339th Infantry. A. E. F., via New York.

From M. Hansen. Overseas, Oct. 23, 191S. Dear Uncle:

How Is Hamnrnd and the I. H. B. R. R.? I suppose you think I am getting to ho too lazy to write. To tell the truth I am a bit lazy but I have not been in one place long enough to do much of anything, sometimes not long enough to turn around. When I get

back to the state I will back you off thej

map when it comes to telling stories about the country and how it feels to be broke and no chance of getting a cent. This is v;hat I call real army life and am beginning to feel very much at home any place I happen to be I hang my hat.1 How is Chas. Mott and all the "mud hops" at Gibson? Also Art? Pid he get married yet? If he did not tell him I thought it was about time. Ha. ha. I have lecn from one end of France to tho other, but have not seen any real action yet, but expect to pretty soon, and if they keep on like they have I will be lucky if I see any. They havo driven - the Huns out of the trenches and are keeping thetn on the tun most of the time.

I don't know if nia ia going to have a large dinner on Thanksgiving or not. but if she docs, why. butt In and tell her I said you should eat my share, for mo as I don't know of anyone else who eouid do it to suit me. Ha, ha. Be sure and ask for the white meat and

l while you eat that I will get a caja of

"bully beef" and a few pieces of "hard tack" and try and imagine a large Thanksgiving dinper at home. Now I suppose you will laugh some more, ha. ha. Now, I suppose you think we won't have any Thanksgiving dinner, don't you? Well, I never missed anything jet and don't think I will, to tell the truth about the matter. I like army like O. K. and it has built me up a whole lot not ouly in one way but in every way. I have been in lots of camps hut the ('tie I am in at present is some) place. They can feed 5.000 men at one kitchen. That is feeding some, don't you think? Not only that, hut they can take aN'tit 1,SK', examine them and when they come out at the. end of the building they will

have new outfits and be ready to go anywhere in abou,t 3',j hours time. New what do you think of that for speed? That is what we call going through the mill. If you were here you would, laugh at the French railroads. They have a very poor block system, that is, I think 9o. I have rode on them many b time and

was never satisfied. You will start on a trip and they will say it will take about To hours, like they told mc, and we final'y made it in 38 hours. I have sat ia the train all night and they would hardly make over 5 miles during the night. I must close as I am running short of paper and I want you to give my regards to Aunt Kate, Vncla Will and

all of them as I have lost all the addresses and cannot write to them. And don't forget to give them to Chas. Mott, Art. Bill Kennedy and all the boys, even

the mud hops at Gibson. Your nephew, CPL. MILTON HANSEN. V. S. Do not try to answer this as I lave no address to receive my mail at.

the Huns. I just came off the firing line, was up there for tyetr. : -two days and went over the top sern times, so you cj.n see I had son.e tim . The tirst day we went over every ..r..- was singing and joking, hut that didn't !ast long It's sure some experience t- lay it; ,t shell hole for hours at a tim- when shells are bursting over your n ad. Thr makes the third front I h - been on since I have been over hen- ; r.d I ho;-, it will be the last. We are now in a rest can.n and expect to be here for a few wcks. Well, mother, I received all the pipers you sent me and was sure glad to get them. The way things look here the war wiil soon o over, the Germans are abouf to end tlvrir line. Wei.', mother, I will have to close for this trnif, hoping this letter finds you all in the best of he&Hh. W.th lots oi' love to all, from jutir sun, JAMES. r. S. Teil all tho girls I will write to them some time this wee!:, also Joe. JAMES S. BRADFORD. Co. C, 115 Inf.-, A. E. F., France.

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