Fred House letter to Nora Rogers - June 2, 1919
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[YMCA letterhead] Le Mans France June 2 1919 Dear Friend Received your letter yesterday and was very glad to hear from you, and to hear that you are feeling fine I have been feeling fine myself all the time except when I get disgusted with this country but then I suppose some day we will get out of here and start for home It has not been so bad here lately as we have been having fine weather It has been nice and warm with very little rain But it sure is dusty. The soil here is about all sand and when the wind gets to blowing and the troops marching in and out it sure does blind a person. Gen Pershing [General John J. Pershing] is here again today reviewing and inspecting the camp and I hope the
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[YMCA letterhead] old skate tells us to go home. I was down town to see some boxing matches a week ago [Sunday], and one of the boys that belongs to the same company I do was knocked out I heard the next morning that he died a few hours after They sure have some fights here between the frogs and the yanks. I suppose you are out to a dance about every night now with a gold stripe hero They have a dance hall down town that charges two cents a set to dance, some place believe me One thing we have got on you any way, we can get all the beer we want, and maybe it don
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[YMCA letterhead] drowned in it so now there is a couple guards over it and we are not allowed to swim there Well Nora how is Hazel getting a long I would send her a card only I don
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Pvt. Fred House 83 Depot Service Co. Army Service Corp A.P.O. 762 Am. E.F. Miss Nora Rogers 413 East Lee St. Nevada [Missouri] U.S.A.
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| Title | Fred House letter to Nora Rogers - June 2, 1919 |
| Creator | House, Fred |
| Source | House, Fred, Letter to Nora Rogers. 02 June 1919. Bushwhacker Museum World War I Collection. 05.56.416. Bushwhacker Museum, Nevada, Missouri. |
| Description | Letter from Fred House to his friend Nora Rogers. Fred was stationed in Le Mans France and wrote about the different forms of entertainment that were in the area, the weather, and asked about the dances back home. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--War work--Y.M.C.A.; Le Mans, France |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; United States. Army. |
| Site Accession Number | 05.56.416 |
| Contributing Institution | Bushwhacker Museum |
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| Date Original | June 2, 1919 |
| Language | English |