Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-06-27
Letter From q. q. Alexander.
Somewhere in. France. 5-25,

"a y Dear Pal Leo -
Your most welcome letter came
today. I expect you know al
M home by now what 1 was talking
about when was.telling you va
& bout the boys from home when
\, wrote last time. Well / am very
sorry, but it is the old saying
y war is hell" i only wish
could write and tell the people
" how nice the boys are taken care
OF when they give their lives for
Is Uncle Sam. They are layed away
I and when the. rest come home.
they too will .be taken up and sent
back to rest. in their own home
s:.s towns. 1t makes us all. feel had
but q will do my best 10 get. five
Ger every one they take from us.
4 \ had all the dope some time ago
s as l mad come upon some of the
other Gllle fellows who had taken part
With our boys and it. made me
proud to be from, Iowa to hear
s what they had to say for the Iowa
boys. Well 4 am sure there are
' 40 boys who will take anymore
and do their bit better. :.
~ hope to get withso our own boys
y and be able to hclpltalze care of
4 the N with our own branch of the
y service. It would be great to
have old Bones helping them out
81 IN the air and TO see them step
B, to the Kaiser. SO they make fhe
Gefmans step at home, we'll when
tllewar is over and us boys come
hon1eswith what we see and know
y they will be sorry they arc Ger
mans.
I'll tell you Leo we must win.
this war and will If it takes every
dSllar and man in the United
: States. They never think any
thing of killing women and child
!. rem If they get their hands on
As them. Well if / get the chance
1 will never take any of them
back over our own lines alive.
You understand. just an ear or
some eyes to- let the rest. know
4 got them.
Say, they sure have taken lot
of boys from home; and as you
! say every week or so it is 40 to
i8 more. Well L think we have.
( Fritzy worried now as all along.
the line and behind it wherever
his eyes look there are great
\ crowdsfof the Sammies, with
plenty of soup and guns and rear
ing TO go.
y Well l am glad the people at
home know this war is not play
PAS we who are over here: have
] known it for some time.
You see it was hard for them
eaat home to-, think !, of their own
dear ones taking part when they
saw anyone who was shot up.
!. But to us over on this side it
Il twas different. We could see on
! every turn what war was and also
s see our own with,stle rest who
were taking part in. the great
battles Oh, yes, it was easy for
lssus to know and to understand
what war was.
I But think how much better we
are off by coming over to fight on
this side. You, see our dear ones
at home can go and come when
{ ever they like, all is safe far
away over the sea, while in this
I)cOuntry it is different One never
flSnows when they close their eyes
/ at night if one of Fritzy's air
fscrafts, will come by and drop a
Tl0ad on them or not. So you see
" is better for us that the war
) four or five thousand miles
y1way from our home land. Well
kfLeo, / am just fine and if you
yknow how it can be did, tell me
DIR. JOINTS address and / will write
I him. can't let him know where
- am and / can write and might
H be able to sec him. ] would sure
love to see HIM and be. able toll
have a good talk with him.
don't think he is with our bunch in
the camp hospital where was
as DR.. Bellinger from Council
Bluffs who did The cutting ON me,
would have told me. So when
you write tell me how TO find
him or write see will locate
him and might get to see him
on one of my leaevs some time.
Well Leo, i have one chevron
to my credit so far,
Well, the weather is sure fine
and am looking up a place where
i can swim a little, never get
4 toorold TO take to the river every
d time | see ono, you know nae.
Well must close, let me know
all about our own boys YOU can
and don't forget to write soon as
& a letter from you always has lots
of mail and news in it.
if Now good bye and good luck.
Best regards to all the folks. at