The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-13
WYCHE WALTERS
WRITES FROM
OVERSEAS
FORMER GRENADA BOY
TELLS ABOUT WHAT
DOING IN FRANCE.

The following is a letter from {
| former Grenaua County boy, Wycht
Walters, to his mother, Mrs. Coleman
Walters at Blue Mountain Wyche
is somewhere" in France:
have an unlocked for Opportunit!
to write you note and for fear
don't have another soon I'll take az
vantage of it. Yesterday was ths
Fourth of July and it was probably
ever spent. I've been to the front
several times now and am beginning
to feel like a veteran for, believe me
when you are up there or up hero
you don't have to be seeker afte
knowledge For to get knowledge
you must have a good teacher and e.
perience is the best teacher under The
sun. Therefore you are swampe
withit, for experience comes over l.
droves and fOcks. of all calibers an
kinds, and you are in the same pre-
dicament as the ones who have great
ness thrust upon them" for Fritz
thrusts it upon you and you have
to take it. Some of the time
we have things to easy for words an,
this is one of them. We lay arounf
and sleep and eat Y. NJ C. A. stuff
when we can get it, and just get LAZY
and trif1ing in general, but Oh! wher
we do have action we have it. Forced
marches with heavy marching equiv
ment and no sleep for twenty four to
thirty six hours and that's just nap
stolen when you stop for while az
of course its always in daytime. No
body sleeps at night whether it be
quiet or active sector. Our Van says
that he carries heavy equipment do
he? Will you just tell him to wa.
until he gets over here and gets al
his overseas equipment and gets Sc;
for action. For instead of clearin.
our decks for action we load their
down. A man is not a soldier an,
more he is used as substitute fo
that stubborn and faithful animal
which Ballarh rode. Here's some oi
the stuff that l had to carry when
we started to the front the first tin
one set of underwear, one shirt
your toilet articles and personal
pair of shoes, four pair of socks. all
belongings, such as towels, handker-
chiefs, needles, thread, gloves, an1
so forth, three days ration of canne1
goods, one blanket one shelter tent,
five pins, one pole, one rope, shose
and leggin-laces, rifle, cartridge belt
canteen first aid pack, rifle tromblom
two gas masks, three hundred rouncs
of ammunition, shovel mess kit.
knife, fork, spoon, cup, meat car
condiment can, steel helmet, slicke~
and a dozen and one little things tha
l don't remember. Now that's VIII;
l actually had in my pack and had sc
carry all the time, add to that two O
three cans of jam and cakes of cho~
olate ana two weeks supply o
tobacco and'it makes nice little
load.
I've lost some of it by now but its
still bad enough. very very Sc
dom have a chance to take my clothec
off and sleep and my shoes never ar
to me for you must always be
ready to get out and mix it with
Fritz or go on duty of one kind O.
another. We stayed in ''rest camn'
one day and night last time so 0
of course | couldn't write any for !
spent the most of my time trying t.
get myself clean again. Probab',
I'll have some mail waiting for m
his time when we go out for | alwa"
get my mail in punches. Cam
write any more now so bye. bve
until later. just lots and lots of low
Wyche.