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In the last mail. George W. Pen
nington received a long and inter
esting letter from his son, who is
with the American army in France
and has taken part in some of the
battles fought.
The following is the letter in part:
September, (date censored)
“Dear Daddy:
“I am making the most of a very
brief, and also a very unexpected
opportunity this morning to send
you a line from the ‘War Front in
France’ Hope you have received
all my former letters, one of which
was forwarded to you in May; one
in June; and one in August.
“The one in May was sent direct
to Nenana, the others were enclosed
with mail to sister Nell, with in
structions to forward to you.
“Daddy, I am having the ex
perience of my life over here; an
'experience that is fairly burning
itself into my mind, and so far I
have been exceedingly fortunate in
keeping out of reach of. a Hun bay
onet, a Hun hand grenade, or any
, of their screeching shells, although
the latter have made me duck many,
many times.
“Have been over the top twice, in
what proved to be rather exciting
brushes with the enemy- near the
little town of —(censored), and
have been under shell fire at one
time for seven hours without a let
up, which finally ended in our gain
ing the objective we were aiming
for, but we had to remain under
cover from 12 midnight, until 4 in
the morning, before we could ad
■ vance and make our gains really
safe and permanent ones.
“So far I have managed to get by
with only a very slight wound in mv
left shoulder, and now I am begin
ning to hope that the worst is about
over, although you can never tell.
“In your letters to me you have
frequently expressed great admira
tion for France, and have told me
more of the splendid history of this
nation than I ever learned at school,
but it would fill your heart with |
sorrow indeed, if you could see the
country now. The things you have
told me, have very naturally made
me keen to observe everything that
I come in contact with here, and
the sights I witness every day, will
help you to write a book when I
come back.
“When we march through the
little towns, the men and women,
old and young, come out to their
front gates, or where their front
gates used to be at one time, and
they smile a greeting, wave their
handkerchiefs- and kiss their hands
to the American soldiers as we pass
by.We American boys, when we
look into the faces of these sad
people, and note how hopeless and
dejected many of them seem, begin
to truly realise what a devilish
thing war really is. They have lost
not only their fortune, but the
young men are practically all gone.
“On our march last evening, as
we passed through two small towns,
we noted many women, and quite a
number of old men, but no young
men anywhere, and the women were
ill dressed in black. However- one
:annot fail to admire the brave
'ront these French women put up,
sven under the terrible sacrifice
hey have been called upon to make.
“Their love and friendship for
he American soldier is beautiful to
:ee, and it makes our boys want
o do more for them, and give more j
o them than we have done or given I
leretofore. ,
I am not permitted to send you
ny war news; have no doubt the
tames of the towns which I have
nentioned will be censored out, I
nay state, however that it seems
o be the purpose of our officers
o press forward without let-up until
.•e occupy German territory, and 1
ee no hope at the present time
f returning to America under twelve
r fifteen months.
“If you intend to return home
rom Alaska during the summer of
919, as your last letter led me to
xpect, there will be little chance
of your seeing me unless you make
up your mind to take a trip across
the big pond.
“All the American boys are look
ing wishfully toward home- for now,
more than ever, we realize that our
United States is really ‘God’s’ own
: country.
“GEO. W. PENNINGTON, Jr.,
“Unit —, I. E. F.„
“American Army,
“France.”
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FROM WILLIE TO PAPA
—
; On the Run, Somewhere in France,
July 20.
I Dear Papa:—
I
I am writing on the run, as tho
brave and glorious soldiers under
my command have not seen the
Rhine for so long that they have
started back that way, and of course
I am going mit dem. Oh, papa dere
has been some offel dings happened
here in France. First, I started in
my big offensive which was to crush
de fool Americans- but dey know
so liddel about military tactics dat
dey refuse to be crushed just like
I want dem. I sent my men in der
fight in big waves, and when dey
got to de Americans, dey all said
“Boo” as loud as dey could hollar.
Veil, according to vat you haf al
ways told me, de Americans should
have turned and run like blazes.
But vat do you tink? Dem fool
Americans don’t know anything
about war, and instead of running
de odder vay, dey came right to
ward us. Some of dem was singing
someding about “Ve von't comeback
till it’s over, over dere,” or some
odder foolish song, and some of dem
ver laffing like fools. Dey is so
ignorant. But they are offel rack
less mit der guns and ven dey come
toward us it was den dat my men
took a notion dey wanted to go back
to de dear old Rhine. Ve don’t like
de little old dirty Marne river any
how. And, oh papa, dem Americans
use such offel language. Dey know
nottings of kultur and say such offel
dings right before us. And dey
talk blasphemy too. Vat you tink
dey said right in front of my face.
One big husky from a place dey hate
to tell you vat an offel ding he said,'
“To hell mit de kaiser!” Did you
ever hear anything so offel? I did I
not tink anybody vould say such an !
offel ting. It made me so mad. 1
I vouldn’t stand and hear such an'
offel ting and so I turned around :
and run mit de odder boys. Vas !
I right- vat? And, oh papa, you
know dem breastplates vat you sent !
us? Can you send some to put on
our backs- You know ve are going j
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NENANA - ALASKA
de odder vay and breastplates are
no good. for de cowardly Americans
are shooting us right in de back.
Some of our boys took off der
breastplates and put dem on be
hind, but de fool Americans are
playing de “Star Spangled Banner’’
mit machine guns on dem plates.
Can t you help us? You remember
in your speech you said notting
could stand before de brave German
soldiers. Oh. papa, 1 don’t believe
dese ignorant Americans ever read
your speach, for dey run after ,s
just like we was a lot of rabbitts.
V ot you tink of dat?Can’t you send
dem some of your speeches right
away? Dey don't know how terrible!
ve are. Can't’ you move my army1
back to Belgium, ver ve won all our
glory? My men can vip de women i
and children dat dem Belgians can
bring up. But dese Americans are I
so rough and ignorant, ve can’t
make dem understand dat ve are de !
greatest soldiers on earth, and ven ]
ve try to sing “Deutchland Uber;
Allas," dey laugh like a lot of mon-1
keys. But we are getting de best!
of de Americans. Ve can outrun!
dem. Papa, if ve are not de best!
fighters on earth ve are sure de best I
runners. Nobody can keep up mit j
us ven ve tink of de dear old Rhine,!
and my army never did tink so much
of dat dear old river. Let me,
know right awey by return post-1
office what 1 shall do.
Crown Prince Willie.”
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