Ernest McKeighan letter to Family - July 14, 1918
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[Y.M.C.A. letterhead] France July 14 [1918] My Sweethearts Thought I had better grasp this oppertunety to write you as the week days (and nights) are so full that I get no chance to write. It is raining and every body is in billets and when you get about fifty men in one tent, some singing, some playing and others making all kinds of noises, you can readily know that it is difficult to keep your thought together, so if I seem to ramble a bit, make allowances for the noise. I am now enjoying? seven bails and it is difficult to sit comfortably and barring these and some blisters due to digging trenches (purely for training) am very well indeed. Am living as an enlisted man and eating the same food which is rough but wholesome. I still have the
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[Y.M.C.A. letterhead] I am getting all peaved that you do not write me a little letter. I wonder if you all got the brooches I sent you. I am no longer any where near that place so think it is all right to tell you that they came from Epenal in Alsace. That is where I got my alarm watch also. I hope to get some lace before I leave here they make the most wonderful lace in this country and I fully expect to obtain some. I have now discovered
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| Title | Ernest McKeighan letter to Family - July 14, 1918 |
| Creator | McKeighan, Ernest |
| Source | McKeighan, Ernest. Letter to Family. 14 July 1918. Ernest E. McKeighan Papers. 2005.14. The National World War I Museum, Kansas City, Missouri. |
| Description | Ernest McKeighan sent this letter to his wife and daughter from France. In the letter, McKeighan mentioned digging trenches for training purposes and eating French cheese. McKeighan served as part of Company E, 110th Engineers, 35th Division during World War I. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Division, 35th; Military training; World War, 1914-1918--Military life--United States |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; United States Army. 110th Engineers |
| Site Accession Number | 2005.14 |
| Contributing Institution | National World War I Museum and Memorial |
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| Date Original | July 14, 1918 |
| Language | English |