The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-10-25
CUT OFF BY HUNS
BU! GlENDON WATSON
WOULDN'T SURRENDER
MAuRY COUNTY BOY WOUNDED
IN ACTION WRITES INTEREST.
ING LETTER TO WIFE.
PRAISES WORK or THE RED CROSS
Fun IN Hospital Despite His Wounded
Foot--Nurse and Comrades Do Ev-
crything Possible to Make Men
Cheerful While Recovering.

Glendon Watson Of Groveland was
wounded in action September &c. He
is member of Company f, $50 in
fantry, A. j. r. The Huns shot him
twice in his right foot and leg and
his gun was shot to pieces, but they
didn't damage his good spirits OF
cause him to wish he could get out
of the war without having to 80 over
the top again, as is proven in a series
of cheerful letters from him to his
wife and mother.
Watson's letters tell the story OF
his adventure better than it could be
told by anybody else. This is the
way he tells it:
September 81, 1918.
My dear little wife:
"Will write you few lines as /
have not had chance to write you in
so long. Sweet thing, l just could
not write you as we were on the
front | have been over the top twice
and tried to kill my part of the Ger
mans; and | think did Although,
dear, | am in the hospital now
Il got shot twice the twenty-sixth
and my gun shot to pieces. But am
proud that | came out as lucky as /
did. ] got shot in the right foot and
leg, but it is not very serious, think.
And sweet, don't you worry about me,
as will write you every time / feel
like it. But tell mother and the rest
of the folks will not write them for
awhile, as one letter is all | feel like
writing.
"The nurse is going to send you a
message. You will get it before you
could letter 1t is so nice TO have
things that way. And, sweet thing,
don't forget to do your part in the
Red Cross work, as it means so much
to us, And you can do your part at
home by helping to win this war,
while will fight mine out to the
best know how
Two Of NIX NIX. friends and myself got
cut off by the Germans. They tried
to capture us, but we would not give
up. We said we would die before we
would let them take us prisoners.
But it is all over with now and
live in hope of meeting you again
some sweet day. And, sweet thing.
pray for us in this terrible war. | did
not realize it was 50 bad. till l went
over the top.
We'll, sugar, will close for tonight,
as | don't feel like writing any more.
Good night. Sweet thing.
Good morning:
q am feeling very well now, all
though awful tired and long to see
my dear little girl You asked me
about the ring. | still have it and the
picture also.
Hon, they like to have leased me
to death yesterday mean the boys,
there in the hospital about what |
told the nurse when ] was coming out
from under the ether They said /
tried to get her to go to the show and
she would not. And they said she
asked me where ! was from and |
told her Tennessee. And she said
she had some people there.
THAT is part of what | said, and
the other | would not dare to write /
They said / cursed her and everything
that could be thought of | said. And
| also spit in the doctors face. But
| don't remember anything of it at
all But ] had great laugh over it
myself
Listen. | am going to send you a !
picture. 1t is not like me, but il will
do. You and mother spoke of having
u good time over here This is moi
place for that at all | had to dodge /
in the trenches several times while |
was reading your letters"