Since my last post in June of my father’s letters from France, Ginger and I have decamped from South Carolina and relocated to our home state of Kentucky, where we have come to rest in the quaint little town of Versailles, about twelve miles from Lexington where family and friends live. Five months later weContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (C0nt. and Final)”
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My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)
Published below are a few more of my father’s war letters written home from France, covering April to July 1918. During this time the German Army launched a major last-ditch offensive on the Western Front intended to defeat the Allies before the newly arriving U.S. troops could be fully deployed. Now enshrined in Marine CorpsContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)”
My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)
Below are the second batch of letters that my father wrote to family from the front in World War I. These letters cover the period from March 10 to April 21, 1918. Most of the letters relate to family, and particularly my father’s disappointment that he is not receiving many letters from home. During thisContinue reading “My Father’s Letters from WWI (Cont.)”
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