The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-12-19
A Letter From France.

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Many Of the Banners subscribers
will read with no small degree Of in
terest the following letter, written by
DIR. George G. Mcclellan, son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. d. Mcclellan. representa-
tive North Bossier residents. 1t was
sent in Ivy the Banners Plain Dealing
correspondent, for which service we
wish to thank him.
Still in France, NOU. Is. 1918.
Dear Mother and al: Received your
letter of October 18th to-day Am wor-
ried about my letters not coming as
they should. Undoubtedly you must
have heard from NE before now. | re-
ceived letter from certain young
lady, written after | got out of bed
from the fiu,'' and know wrote you
at the same time. SO by October 10th
you must have heard from me- Any
way, if you do not get letter before l
get back to the States the surprise will
lie agreeable. don't you think? But l
hope you hear sooner.
wrote You a letter the day after
the armistice was signed. or rather,
pretense Of a letter. Was in hurry
then. But now everything is like 10
cent store the day after Christmas.
have been sitting around looking into
a nice. big cherry fire and dreaming
dreams about the States. Every one
horo hac x,,aI 1p.oa,,,S I kl,i,,E aud
some of these days there is one of those
dreams that is going to come true.
Our boys are in fine spirits, of course.
but they are restless and simply itch
ing for the day to come when we will
lie starting homeward. The boys are a
good lot. and will be glad when every
nlcther's son of them gets back home
Mama, by the way, you know l told
you that / had not seen any of the
home boys over here. Well, the record
was broken the other day. As l was
dressing a wounded lad the other
day lie looked up and said, Aren't you
from Plain Dealing?" almost fell
over. He then said, Il know YOU"
But couldn't place the chap until he
told NE who he was, and then l re-.
membered him well enough. had not
seen him in five or six years. It was
BELyE BOUNDS, Nettie's brother. He
was shot through the leg - machine
gun, think. A very serious case, but
We sent him to base hospital. in
tend going to see him soon. Am sure
he will be 0. k.
Tell Nettie and all the other mem
bers of his family that they can well
be proud of Relve. He showed that he
was man. a real man. and all who
were on the hill that night were men,
for that night it was simply hell on
earth. and l admire any man who had
nerve enough to face it. He and all
the others proved themselves men.
take my hat off to all such heroes
When the lad came into the hospital
he never groaned. l dressed his wounds
as gently, of course, as | could, and
not word or sign of pain came from
him. and know it hurt. He talked to
me about Plain Dealing and seemed to
forget that he, had been shot. All of
the Americans exhibited more nerve
than l had ever seen or ever dreamed
of a lot of men showing. It was simply
wonderful. and am glad am one OF
the tribe, at least, but am not sure
would prove such an example of fear
lessness. Tell Nettie and Tom their
brother is typical, real example Of a
true American, and they can truly be
proud Of him. am.
Mother, there is nothing here that
would interest you = that is, nothing
that | could write. Nothing even in
terests us here. We are thinking Of
something (and some one) else. All
that we hear is FiHis la Gueff'e !;
Fine la B0che.' And, believe ME, they
are finished.
There is much speculation here as to
when we will be travelling homeward,