French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-03-13
A LETTER FROM FRANCE
My. dear friends:


L seat myself to answer your Iette
L nave just received. Was real gla,
TO hear from you all. This leaves m,
IN fine health, hope you all the same
haVe got fat and sassy since I en-
tered the service. We have good food
and plenty of it. We have plenty O.
clothes to wear, and not much work tc
no.. Just to give you an idea Of how
much we have to do. I'll say we are
on duty three hours, and off fifteen
SO you see we don't work much.
We do everything now on the thir,
teenth, I landed in Quantico, Va, on
the thirteenth of August, and was put
into the 18th Regiment the same day
On the thirteenth day of September VIC
left Quantico for France. We were OF
the water Is days. We had a fine time
coming over. Of course there was a
little sea sickness, but nobody cared
for that, except those that were al
ready sick. But in spite of all the bad
luck, We had a fne time. We landed
in Brest, France on the Goth of Sep
TENDER, which is twice thirteen. We
stayed in Brest one month, and spenc
our time in building camps and help
ing the soldiers carry their packs to
them. One ship load of soldiers that
landed at Brest, while we. were there
had been in service eight days when
they started over. They were in a
storm on their way over. We're
seventeen days coming. You can
guess how they looked and felt. Some
of them looked like they we're not able
to crawl, and some of them looked
like they didn't want to. we went
down and carried their packs for
them.
The Marine Corps is the Jack of all
jobs. They work anywhere. We were
all. disappointed because we didn't get
to go to the front. Guess that it was
best for lis.
After we left Brest we went co BoT-
deaux and did NJ. P. duty. There
plenty of incidents while we We're
there.
The day the Armistice was signed
hat was a great day for the French
All Bordeaux was drunk that
night and it was a lively time for the
VI. P, but it passed over without any
getting killed. Everything has
been lovely ever since I came over
md 1 have enjoyed it fine. But since
he wal is over I want to get back
ONE as soon as possible. 1t is not be
ause / DO not like the service, for /
10. We have a good bunch Of officers
nd everything like that and the Y. M.
;. A. furnished us games for amuse-
nent, and so does the K. of c., but
when a fellow wants to come, home
can get his mind off it.
1 hope to be in the states by the
fiddle of summer and probably SOON
+ but we don't know when we are
Ding to move until we are moving,
I don't know where we are going
ntiI we get there. But nevertheless
is nice to know that VIZ are moving. +
here was a fire in Il Of the ware
ouses the other night. It was a nice
ice 20 the scene, only to Get there =
tier the fire was put out. There was +
cry little damage done, except a few 7
linned sh1ns. One fellow stumbled G
i'd, fell. OF course every Il il thai
INK stumbled over him. There were n
five on the ground, aud 1 fell a
rer them caught on my hands turned f
summersalt and was on my teet1n
ain before anyone fell on me. r
Well as 1 can't think of anything to fl
rite, l will close. Ir,
Answer soon from your bud. NJ
Private William EenTT Ward a
u. S. Marines. =,