Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-10-24

you have not read it right. am we'll.
happy and contented.
Love
Jim
Jim Welsh
Motor Truck Co. 367 TN. 211 RIM.
Convois Autos-A. f. f.
Par B. C. M. : Paris.
Chas. McKeever Back in u. S. A.
(Chas McKeever who left here with
our boys in May 1917, has been in
valided home and is now at Fort Des
MONIES recovering from bullet thru
the shoulder and also the effects of
gas. He expects a furlough soon.)
With the Colors, Oct. IL, Is.
Dear Mother and Dad:
/ am back in the good old u. s. A.
again. have not got off the ship vet
SO can not give you my address, but
will write again as soon as know
what it will be.
l expect to come home just as soon
as ! go before the Board of CLASH
fication.
| am feeling fine and you can guess
how happy am. got so many stripes
for war service that all the vets
think am general / got two French
honors, one is the Cross of War and
the other is the Citation Card, so if
was not much good to fight at home
l can show some of the guys at home
l can fight in France.
You see mother, I have been in
France fifteen months, so l have had
some experience.
Do you remember the time YOU
wrote me and asked if | had been
wounded? Well | just got out of the
hopital the day got your letter, and
to keep you from worrying, told
you l had never been hurt. Well, here
l am, back where left sixteen
months ago today.
l guess you will be surprised to
hear l am back in dear old U. S. A.
Your loving son,
Corp. Chas. A. McKeever.
Ellis Island, Oct. ~, '1s.
Dear Mother and Dad:
| am still here on the Island but
hope to get off in couple of weeks at
least; you see how they hold us here
to see that we have no contagious
disease.
Well mother, l can hardly wait until
| can get home to see you all and
have a good talk with the boys that
are still at home, and to go to good
dance once more. Won't that be great.
l can dance, | am sure, so you see
am not cripple and l will show you
that l am not. When get home
will bring the coal in for the stove
and chop the wood for you to burn.
l go from here to the hospital that
lis closest to home, and from there
get furlough home. 1t will take
about month to get it, but l will be
there in time, so don't worry about
me for | am all right and feeling
fine, eating eggs for breakfast and
everything good
/ will write and let you know what
hospital am sent to from here.
think it may be Omaha or Kansas
City, so if l have to stay there long
you can come down and visit me; but
from what / can learn here, we won't
have to stay there only few days
and then go home.
There is going to be parade for
the Fourth Liberty Loan tomorrow in
New York and we soldiers from
France will be in it, SO they say, and
| will see New York the same as /
saw Paris. Won't that be fine?
Everything seems different here.
The air is different and all the peo-
L pie are so much different over here,
They give us soldiers everything and
won't take cent for it. What do you
think of that?
There is Red Cross lady who
comes around every day and gives us
cigarettes and candy, and she said she
would give me kiss if it was dark,
so you had better watch your when he
gets home. He has changed lot and
can stand watching.
am sending dad ring got off a
German, so tell him to wear it for luck
and if anyone asks him where it came
from, tell them German gave it to
me and sent it to him; but the real
truth of it is killed the German and
took it for a relic. Don't tell them
that for they might think / have nc
heart at all. It is off the first Ger.
man ] killed in France and that is
why ] saved it. It is made out of {
German shell and aluminium off Of
| the shell. It is not worth much onl,
as a souvenir.
| Well, it is time for dinner SO will
lclose for this time.
Your loving son,
4 Corp. Chas. McKeever
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Letter fromGeo .Swanger
/ Somewhere 8-11-1l
To nv Dear Wife: