The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-05-18
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glad you've cut II out. That's right:
you be regular girl now. You always
were one. and knew that all right.
TN not as scared To write to you as I
was To talk To you. 50 | guess you know
| was mighty ticklcd TO get your letter.
II sounded blue, but I was glad to get
II. You bet I'll write to you I don't
suppose you could have any idea how
glad was To get your letter. / could
sit here and write to you all day II
they'd let me- but I'm corporal now.
When you answer this, | wish you'd
say how the old town looks and II the
grass in the front yards is as green as
IL usually is, and everything. And tell
me some more about everything you
think II when you are working down
at the Red Cross like you said. guess
I've read your letter five million times.
and that part ten million. | mean
where you underlined that you and
what you said to yourself at the Red
Cross. Oh, murder but ! was glad to
read that Don't forget about writing
anything else you think of like that.
well. | was interrupted then aud
this is the next day. OF course l can't
tell you where we are. because that
darned censor will read this letter, but
| guess he will let this much by. Who
do you think ! ran across in village
yesterday? Two boys from the old
school days, and we certainly did
shake hands a few times II was that
old foolish Dutch Krusemeyer and Al
bert Paxton, both of them lieutenants.
| heard Fred Mitchell is still training
in the States and about crazy because
they won't send him over yet
III you have any idea how glad 1
was To get your letter. you wouldn't
lose any time answering this one. Any
how, I'm going TO write to you again
every few days II get the chance. be-
cause maybe youll answer more than
one of 'em.
But see here. cut out that sent you
to be killed stun. You've got the
wrong idea altogether, We've got the
big job Of our lives. we know that. but
we're going to do II. There'll be mis-
takes and bad times, but we won't fall
down. Now, you'll excuse me for say
ing II this way. Dora but don't know
just how 10 express myself except
saying Of course We know everybody
isn't going to get back home-but lis
ten, we didn't come over here To get
KILLED particularly, we came over To
give these Dutchmen HI.
perhaps you can excuse language II
l write 1t with blank like that, but
before we get back we're going to do
what we came for. They may not all
of them be as bad as some of them
It's good thing you don't know what
we do. because some Of Il would make
you sick. As say. there may be quite
a lot of good ones among them; but
we know what they've done to this
country, and we know what they mean
to do to ours. So we're going To at
tend 10 them. OF course that's why
I'm here. II wasn't you.
Don't forget to write pretty soon,
Dora. You say In your letter. GER
tainly was glad To get that letter
well, you say have things to do more
Important than girls Dora. | think
You probably know without my saying
so that Of course while l have got Inn
portant things to do, just as every
man over here has, and everybody at
home, for that matter well, the thing !
that is most important in the world 10 |
me, next TO helping win this war, it's /.
reading the next letter from you.
Don't forget how glad I'll be to get
II. and don't forget you didn't have /,
anything TO do with my being over
here. That was-it was something |
else. And you bet, whatever happens
TN glad | came! Don't ever forget |
that!"
Dora knew II was something else"
Her memory went back to her first rec
Of him in school; from that
time ON he had been just an ordinary,
everyday boy, iloundering somehow
through his lessons In school and
through his sweethearting with Milla,
as the millions-ot other boys fioun-