Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-12-20


the water was little bit calmer tina
usual so / didn't tie myself in, an
about an hour or two after woke u
and found myself on my back in tn
middle of the deck, so didn't take an
more chances but crawled back in m,
bunk and tied myself in. It's an aw
full life ito live but we fellows krov
its all for The Flag" and the goo,
old U. S. A. So we smile and max
the best of it, hoping that it wont b,
long before we will all be back hom,
lagain.
| I've certainly seen some. horridl,
things since I've been over here ye
lots of interesting things too. Yo,
would be surprised to see some of tn,
old men over here in uniform. The,
are so old they can hardly get about
and lots of young kids that don't lool
to be more twelve or fourteen year:
old. There are some soldiers here al
Queenstown, both English and Amer.
lean, but the ones l had reference te
were some l saw at Brest, France anG
Southampton, Eng. Queenstown il
a very disagreeable place itself and
none of the boys like it here, but Liv.
erpol is paradise. l never did see
such weather as we have here in
Queenstown. It's awful damp and
rains all the time. I think it has
rained every day since Pveben here
and I'm surprised we havn't all died
with pneumonia. Am standing il
fpretty well myself, though, and the
navy is certainly agreeing with me,
as l have gained forty pounds since
enlisted.
We have a nice club here for the
enlisted men and officers; moving
pictures every night and lots of good
music by the band. They have a
dance hall here and several picture
shows but they have all been closed
up for the past two weeks on account
of the fluenza. In fact, everything
has been closed, including schools and
churches. It's all over the country
and around on most of the ships.
Seventy-two men died on one ship
coming over and there was quite a
lot of it on the Culgoa, but have es-
capped it so far.
From the papers it seems that the
boys in teh army are having quite a
bit Of luck in running into home boys
but ! havnt had anysuch lyck since 7
left Tom Tyson and Gene Murphey at
Newport Training station. I don't
know Of but one boy here that is even
from Mississippi, and he is on the
same ship with me. His name is Pru-
lit and he is from Columbus. We
have mutual acquaintance with a
number of people around Macon and
Brooksville and have some jolly good
time talking about home and wishing
we were back again.
The victims of the Lusitania are
buried here in Queenstown and I was
out to see their graves not long ago.
| have some pictures of them to bring
home and will show you when I get
back. The pictures were taken as
they were being covered up and in
stead of digging separate grave for
each one they just dug one big grave
and piled them in on top of each 9TH
er. We conveyed the Levithian the
largest ship afoat into Liverpool
about ten days ago and I wish you
could have seen it. My! but it was
immense. She had twelve thousand
five hundred soldiers aboard besides
crew of two thousand five hundred
men, and even at that wasn't filled
up as she is built to carry eighteen
thousand men. You just can't imag-
inc such boat as that. It's $50 feet
long, has 13 decks and five elevators
on it, and still some of the boys got
sea sick coming on a boat like that.
They don't know what sea sickness is
until they take trip on destroyer.
We have men on the Rowan that have
been in the navy twelve and fifteen
years that get sick every trip out.
The last trip out I saw seven men
" Feeding the Fish at One Time," Off
GERS included the same as enlisted
men. I've been fortunate enough not
to get sick so far and hope l will con-
tinue to keep it up, for they all say
its an awful feeling. Some of the |
boys stay out four and five days and
don't eat thing, but they sure make |
up for it when they get into port. |
One boy on the Kimberly (another |
destroyer) was sent back to the |
states because he couldn't stand this |
kind of life. He would get sick every
trip out and would have to have a
doctor with him until he got back to
mort