Post date: 17-Jul-2013 15:02:50
Dear Father and Mother:
Today I will try to write you a letter as I have not written you as often as I have been writing heretofore. I had not heard from you all for over three weeks until last evening I received a letter from you and one from brother Carl and you do not know how much it cheers one up to read a letter from home in the dear old U.S.A. You sure can give the home news and this is what we love to hear. I also got another "Pendleton Times" this week and believe I read all that was in it including the advertisements.
See where there are a lot more of the boys coming to help get the Dutch. Of course, they may never be needed, but as the old saying goes" the more the merrier." The Yankees are coming over fast and thick.
Well Mother, you asked me to bring you a relic from over here. We just returned from a little town or what had shortly been a town and sure saw many things I should have liked to have kept but it was not possible for me to do so. But if the Lord spares my life from those Huns to get back I will bring something back with me to recall the scenes we have passed through.
I am glad to be able to tell you all I am well and in the best of health and I was surely glad to have you say that you are all well as this is the best news I read in your letters.
Well Father, you sent me the address of a lot of the boys from Pendleton but I haven not met any of them. I have not seen any one that I know only those that came over with me and belong to my regiment among these are Mortimer Johnson and Sergeant Stiue Jones. Well Papa, you said George Warner had written that he had just returned form the front and could tell of many exciting occurrences. Well I am sure he has nothing on me along that line but I will have to wait till I get back to tell you about that. I would like to tell you all my experiences but that I get home I will tell you all about it.
Well there are several sacks of mail here and it will be called off this evening and I surely hope to get some from you all.
I hope you will all keep up your good letters and you know they will be read over and over.
Well I guess I will close for today but will write you very soon again.
With the old Stars and Stripes. I am as ever.
Your son,
Private Brooks F. Calhoun, Co. D. 7th U.S. Infantry, A.E.F.