Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-10-11
IF STONE WRITES
Of TRANSPORT WORK
Us Made Eight Trips to France
rske soldiers Over, Bring Back
wounded and Manned

France.
September 10, 1918.
nearest Mother and Father:
Mother, dear, you are wondering
whv YOU have not received any word
rom your sailor boy, but will ex-
Main the reason
Last time in New York we only re-
NAMED long enough to reload and
xere again under way for France,
wbere we are now. Will be on our
,oturn to the States tomorrow even
ing. But our work is plentiful and
we are lucky if We get one good
nights rest out of seven. Our pa
tents are the wounded-some with
legs off, while others have no arms,
and one unlucky fellow has neither.
Wounds of all descriptions, from
their heads down to their feet i'll
they are lucky enough to have any
feet
- is restricted from any Amer
lean in uniform, as there is an cpl
demic raging in that city-Spanish
Influenza which is a water germ
and very contagious in rertain re-
spects. But nevertheless it does not
worry any of us boys for is |
tiresome after being in the port eight
times, which this trip makes.
Can you people realize that our
boat and crew have made eight sue |
essful trip with troops to France, |
sOmething that only two other boats |
have accomplished since in the sery- |
Ice OF the U. S. We hold the trans |
port record for the round trip to
France from New York-14 days and |
four hours. OF course you people |
can hardly realize the fact, but on |
ne trip we were only in France % |
|hOurs and in New York four days, so |
yOu can see the way we are licking |
The Germans. There are IS marines
among the other wounded we have,
and one of them is Robert Hill, from
Seattle, Wash, who attended w S.
C. in the year of 1861 and was
with Boyd Maynard in the drive in
which he and Maynard were shot and
Maynard died. But it was the drive
that saved Paris from the damned |
Germans, He remembered me we'll, |
but | could not place him at first |
but in two or three hours of talking |
We both found that we know many |
people in Pullman. Poor kid, he
was shot in one knee and through |
one arm just below the elbow, but is |
as happy as a lark, more so after |
meeting me for he had not heardl
from home for over six months be-
cause the Marines did not even stop
Tor mountains or rivers nor the
damned Germans-please excuse me
Tor using the word damned" but
that Is the only way we can express
our feelings toward them ! am sure
you could hear us sailors and SOL
dlers talk about them then you would
only think the word damned" a
nice word. But an American is not
ca for saying just what he thinks,
ana can assure We we do, but in a
patriotic way.
Now, dear ones at home, YOU or
NE people in the States do not rea-
NE what war is, but if you could
come to France just for one week
'ay on the front lines and in the
NoeS that have been bombarded by
10Th the allies and Germans, then
'Ou would wake up and not squeeze
~e american eagle that is in your
pWAe's while your sons and broth
~ are over here with both heart
'uu soul, so that the low down slack
nav MS SOOu IlIl6S DIT TIC
4aaces, picnics, etc. But some day,
'ucn Will not be very far off, we
W coming home, those of us that
40 lett, and then watch out, you
a'cAers' for we will have the physic-
ana mental strength. So watch
W.T. siackers, You had better so to
'mahy will be our cry to the
Slaekers.
40 Ior myself, l am only sorry that
:" not a soldier, for after seeing
- poor fellows whom we are taking
. with us each trip it only stirs
~ nghting blood of an American.
~ ~" can we make the able-bodied
s'Aer feel the American sprit?"
Nv ~ the great question which the
49, s''eahs over here in France are
ION the world. So, as ! have said,
~ .ne siackers to make room when
!. americans return, and tell them
/" De caught with a military
SO girl or sweetheart-some may
~. nave one-but they will when
4sy reach home.
N. mother and all of the rest of