The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-16

live IN Wilson. Corporal Baker is
we'll known in Ardmors. He writes
the following:
Dear sister and brother Am
writing this letter to you and man.
ma and papa altogether. | received
three letters the last three DAYS
from you dear kids and four from
mother. Also received letters and
cards from others. We like to get
lots OF mail and we have very little
TO do now except to read and write.
! have written you on an average
OF twice a week while on the front,
but it seems that you did not re-
ceiye the letters. Our mail is com
ng pretty regularly since the arm
istice. - Brother | am proud
OF you and the great work you and
the other boys have been doing in
the munition plants. Ammunition
won the war. We never lacked
and could always throw 10 to the
Huns /. viii have lot to tell YOU
when | get home, which WON'T
BE LONG NOW.
"My regiment was detached from
the 36th Division in September and
sent to the front before the rest OF
the Division. We were the Corps
Engineers OF the First Army Corps,
composed OF the best Division in
the Army, one OF them the And or
Rainbow DIVISION The lllth
Regiment ranked above all Engin-
GERS Of the First Corps. The First
Corps started all the big drives. We
were at st. Mihiel in September and
at Verdun in the latter part OF the
month. In November and October
we were in the Argonne Forest and
on the Aisne and Meuse rivers. We
were before Grand Pre- for many
days, when the Huns put up the
stiiie>t fight they have ever made
since March 2l-lS. We we're IN
Al,ace-Lorraine for a time. When
the war ended we were near Sc
dan, about ten miles from Belgium.
Our Division, with another Corps
also made a grand record which
You already know.
no more glorious history was
ever written than the history OF the
Americans in France, and no great
er ever lived than that great French
man, Marshal Foch. And what
with lluig, the mighty British lead
er, with Petain, the big silent
l'renchman, who said at Nerdun-
They shall not pass'-(and they
didn'D and last, but not least our
own Black Jock Pershing, the
peerless American, who sounded
the Nanks battle cry, Hell, Heaven
or Hoboken by Christmas;' That
is what Black Jack told us at
Brest when we landed and ever
since the boys from the L. 5. A.
have fought their way grimly,
iiercely forward, tooth and nail,
bayonet and gun, grenade and can
non to make good their great COM
mander's word. And they did it,
ahead OF shedule! The Oklahoma
troop, have played a part which
will shine on the pages OF history,
Tor the leaders say that the world
has never seen better troops, or
harder soldiers than the men of the
36th and Doth Divisions, the two
TeXas-Oklahoma divisions. And
the lllth Engineers received more
credit than even the S6th, but
when see YOU at home | can tell
YOU more OF this. am glad |
came over here, proud OF my Regi-
ment, glad to have been one among
such men. And now we shall be
sailing over the seas back to Gods
country.
And we leave behind us a name
that every nation respects. For
the French called us the Dare
Devils the Germans named us
the Devil Dogs and the English
called MS the "YankS from He'll
81 am well and in fine health.
Have been trying to get a photo OF
myself ior a month to show you
how ugly / am and how mean look
ing, bur can't succeed, Am getting
80 fat, can't even wear my old
clothes and have to wear bigger
ones. Must weigh about $50 or l55
pounds and that is big you know.
Am hard as nails, feel good all the
time and can sleep in a mud or
rock pile in perfect comfort and
not even have a cold. Have been
wet so long that am afraid I'll
dry up and blow away when ] get
TO Oklahoma again I'll be glad to
do so anyway. Ii anyone should
ask where Heaven is, just tell EN-
for me, its Oklahoma, L. ). A.
Il have seen a few times when
! thought it was going to be Heav-
en- or He'll for me, Tor when the
Huns heavy stuff gets to flying
around, kinda careless like and
their internal machine guns COM
mence that -tat-a-tat-it makes
a fellow feel plumb unnecessary
and every soldier of the Huns had
a machine gun in his hand. Up in
the Argonne they would stand and
tight a while and then stick their
machine guns under their arm and
run piece and set them down
again and blaze away. They won't
fight you hand to hand. Take their
machine guns away and our dough-