Letter from Edward Meier to Frank - October 21, 1918
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[October] 21 1918 Hello Frank, Received your letter of [September] 29th also [September] 22nd am feeling fine and takeing it quite easy in a very quiet sector of the line. Mother can dispose of my cot but it will not be necessary to replace it with a larger bed or any bed for that matter, it seems like the more I eat the skinnier I get, or possibly Uncle Sam is walking me skinny I have toured most of Northern France and all of Central and Southern France on foot, and some of these hills over here are enough to kill a donky. You say you are eager for my home comeing, thats putting it rather
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mile for me to say I am eager to come home, I am wild, wooly and full of flees to get home, Well, I don
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me so confounded homesick, that I don
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of Khaki clad wild cats. We will have the square head across the rhine before very long, but I am afraid, if we have to drive him all the way, we will go right on through and make a good job of it. Ed. P.S. Am encloseing a few souvenirs I picked up in the drive.
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| Title | Letter from Edward Meier to Frank - October 21, 1918 |
| Creator | Meier, Edward |
| Source | Meier, Edward. Letter to Frank. 21 October 1918. World War I Collection. A1771. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Private Edward W. Meier of St. Louis, Missouri, served with the 138th Infantry during World War One. Meier wrote his cousin-in-law Frank Baebler, also of Saint Louis, several humorous letters during the War. In this letter, Meier discussed life in France and the St. Mihiel drive. |
| Subject LCSH | Saint-Mihiel, Battle of, Saint-Mihiel, France, 1918; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI |
| Site Accession Number | A1771 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | October 21, 1918 |
| Language | English |