Tom letter to Sis - September 12, 1918
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San Antonio Camp David September 12th [1918] Dear Sis. Your letter of late date rec
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[page 2] new Division, called the 18th and we are surely preparing, and right now are almost ready for the growing line.. Someday next week, we are to have our Rifle Range practise and see how good my right eye really is. did you know that I was sown [ms illegible: 6 words] of June, until I wrote you
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[page 3] I wonder, really how much longer this thing is going to last anyway? I am anxious to get to the firing line - because it gets so montonous hanging around these camps with such great things in sight across the Pond - I have a Brother who is older than I who has been there since the 1st of June and he reports some very interesting sights and good time too. he was only stationed at Camp Funston, 3 weeks and then over the top he went. Sis and you know Harry Ruby was in the Carpet Dept at the Famous for years, who acted act Stockman among a young lady who lives above us at home, and he has been
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[page 4] is your opportunity now. That really accounts for the delay in answering sooner note the largest one is where, the rest of the boys were stationed in the Kitchen, as Kitchen Police, and they asked me to get in although Ive had this K.P. too a few times - Sis - I should not wonder but what this town has changed some since you been here. My Brother who is in France and on the firing line now, wrote that he met my Cousin there, Gee Wasn
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[page 5] I guess it want be long now, and they will have my younger Brother and also the married one, too. That will make 5 from our family and the 6th one who is old enough, but was turned down. Have you seen Lane lately? HaHa. Well sis This is about all I can think of at present. Trusting to find you all well at home and hoping to hear from you soon, again. I remain Your old Friend Tom.
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| Title | Tom letter to Sis - September 12, 1918 |
| Creator | Tom |
| Source | Tom. Letter to Sis. 12 September 1918. Frank P. O'Hare Papers, 1850-1960. A1152. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | In 1912, Frank O'Hare became editor of the Rip-Saw, a socialist monthly issued from St. Louis. He was married to the prominent socialist Kate Richards O'Hare, who was imprisoned during World War I (April 1919 |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; Camp Travis (Tex.); Punitive Expedition by the United States Army into Mexico, 1916 |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; Training |
| Site Accession Number | A1152 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | September 12, 1918 |
| Language | English |