John L. Barkley letter to Mother - March 30, 1919
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March 30, 1919. Germany. Dear Mother. I am thinking tonight of home wondering what you all are doing. It is now nine oclock bed time in the states it is three oclock. us boys are not having it so hard as we ust to, not much drill and pleanty to eat and I am sleeping in a feather bed between two sheets as white as snow. There is a boy from [Kentucky] sleeps in the next bed in my room, he is the biggest coward you ever saw. Run ever time he herd canon or a shell whiz and he herd several whiz and never stopped running. He was dethly afraid of machine gun bullet.
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| Title | John L. Barkley letter to Mother - March 30, 1919 |
| Creator | Barkley, John Lewis |
| Source | Barkley, John L. Letter to Mother. 30 March 1919. John Lewis Barkley Collection, 1917-1919. 1996.33. The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | In this incomplete letter dated March 30, 1919, John L. Barkley wrote his mother, Leona Barkley, concerning his billet condition. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 4th; United States. Army. Division, 3rd |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Army of Occupation |
| Site Accession Number | 1996.33 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | March 30, 1919 |
| Language | English |