Ernest McKeighan letter to Family - May 26, 1918
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France May 26 [1918] My Beloved I am going to write as small as possible and try to get this letter on one sheet, as paper is very hard to get and I do not want to run out. I am going to suggest that when you write me that you use one side of the paper, then I can write you on the other side and by that means, can be sure to have paper to write you on and save your dear letters as well. We are cut down to the last pound in carrying our baggage about and while I still hang on to your letters and expect to continue to do so, I want to save all future letters by the above means. Do not take this as a hint to send me a box of paper as I cannot carry it but just write on the one side and I shall answer on the other. Your letter followed me from Camp M--- and reached here yesterday, and is the first news I have had from home. you may be sure I was enraptured to get it and walked about all
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[page 2] write you and Mille Madalaine says she will write Carrie-Lou. I have been invited by them to spend my rest periods with them and if I get any such a thing and am within 100 miles of them shall probably do so, as they have a nice home, in a nice, quiet village with a pretty garden and lots of flowers in fact almost all the better class French go in pretty strong for flowers. Whenever I start from here on a march, they fill my Thermos bottle with cider, and by the way, that said bottle is about the most sensible thing we purchased to bring over here, it has been a great comfort. There is an unbounded faith that the Allies will hold
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[page 3] (there! I knew I should exceed the speed limit and use more than one sheet) fortitude. All the Allies empress me as a bull dog who gets hold of a rope and hangs on like grim death. I can not see how the Hun expects to whip these sort of people. I am a long way from the front but on a still night can hear the big guns going. I should certainly like to see America shoot the Aeroplanes over here in unending succession as it looks to me as the answer to a speedy ending to this hellish thing, war. You would be supprised to know how many of our troops are here, but I am not permitted to name the number sufficient to say that they are here in huge numbers and will most decidedly make themselves felt when the push starts. be it from either side. Am expecting Capt H. back
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[page 4] at any moment and don
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| Title | Ernest McKeighan letter to Family - May 26, 1918 |
| Creator | McKeighan, Ernest |
| Source | McKeighan, Ernest. Letter to Family. 26 May 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 discussed airplanes, how his unit was getting along, and the possiblity of returning home. McKeighan served as part of Company E, 110th Engineers, 35th Division during World War I. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. Division, 35th; Aeroplanes; World War, 1914-1918--Public opinion; World War, 1914-1918--Equipment and supplies |
| 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 | May 26, 1918 |
| Language | English |