The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1919-04-24
INTERESTING LETTER.
Dewitt Reid Gives Interesting Account
of His Experiences.

Nantes France. Mar. H. -
Speer & Sexton. Hickman. Nv.
Ny Dear Friends: Have lust finished
a rather ancient edition of the good OH
Courier. sent 10 me by our good friend
viii Bright who is stationed nj Mar
settles For some unknown reason !
have not been getting the Courier TOT
/ the last three months For a long Iiins
IL came pretty regularly but usliah! !
/ received about six or seven al uihe'
that being caused by my being away
from my outfit nearly all the time
! In very short time year will have
elapsed since / looked upon the smiliiii-
faces of you dear Hickman people ana
might mention that IL has been
year of many happenings and eNpt
/ ricnccs 10 as fellows over here 1hihs~
have gone around 30 fast in the past
twelve months that IL seems more Hike
dream than a reality.
manage 10 get letter from MONT
occasionally and IL surely makes me
Z feel good to know that the boys ar
returning 10 Gods country even tnousn
I can't be one Of them. There's or
thing we all know now and tiat
that there Is hut one land i'm the M"'i"
and that il our good Americs- a.
Sure Won that we will all know Wh''
n means 10 be an American. hh."
~ mo- greater honor. Europe may %
fright FOR Europeans. but for "1anh
give him the hand 81 freedom lh'i
doesn't exist Ia Europe. OF eoniSc
there, are lots of countries over NJ,
tb,t arn-t ruled by "the iron hand
hut al the same time our class OF iree-
dom and the European class Of freedom
are entirely two different forms.
Thousands of the boys are returning
hotne every week now and | hope I"
d. among them before many more
weeks pass by. ! am located In one "t
the prettieSt and most interesting
cities of France now Nantes l.
beautiful city of about 10000 people.
also otlire a seaport although inland
from the sea just "a short ways. Ny
ouffr came down here in the latter
part Of January and the funny part Of
IN was gthat j.. 10 the other fellow
We thought we were on our way home
when we left our headquarters up In
the interior Of France. But when we
got down here they Immediately put
us on the American docks superintend-
ing the unloading of American freight
transports. / was In that work for
some time. We had Chinese. French.
Belgian and Spanish labOrers and Ger
man prisoners. At present / am with
my Army school doing office work.
This Army School Is n wonderful thing
and thousands OF the boys are taking
of IT, We have also taken
over the A. L. A. and also the Y. Nj. g.
As end Of the educational line so you
see IL j. now all under the Army. Our
office i a sort of distributing office of
the applicants. and we also have quite
"A number OF teachers under our con
troll. For instance. if young man
comes in and desires 10 90 10 one of
the Universities and take special
course we get busy and If that man can |
qualify morally and financially. le Is |
alright Then we have quite num-
Der of schools i'm and around Nantes
and our teachers are on the go an the
time. Then I'm our library we have
books Of every nature and open to the
soldiers and If a man wants to brush
up a little on his former line we give
him the necessary material and tell
him TO go to IL.
We have hundreds OF them come In
every day wanting TO know If we have
any material along the line Of agri-
culture. economies and sociology, his
tory or mechanical. etc We never let
n fellow get away without getting what
he came after. Then we keep an eye
open for the troops that are on their
way nome ana are apt TO be billifed
around this section until they get or
ders 10 move into the camp where they
bid goodbye to France. Naturally
these men are restless and waiting gets !
and as soon as they get To- Q
Gated we rush right In with books and :
and away goes monotony. .
AZ present there are thousands Of
troops around here within a radius OF
forty or fifty miles waiting for orders
% move I'm the big evacuation camp at
81 Nazaire and we are on the 60 try
ng TO keep them all supplied.
a little more than $1,000 Of the boys o.
headed west last week so Won see they \,
ire going home fast Now that we are r.
o get those big German liners we =,
'ught to go some. The Germans were p
mighty slow about coming across with +,
helr Doats ana am inclined TO believe n
nat tho IFfff<h L :