TRUMAN TELLS BESS HE WILL PROBABLY SAIL BEFORE MID-APRIL
Le Mans, France (JFK+50) On March 15, 1919, Captain Harry S Truman wrote still another letter to Bess Wallace. He wrote...
"At last we are really and truly headed for home. (We) will probably sail before the middle of April..."
Captain Truman was worried because Bess had been sick. He wrote...
"I hope the sight of you will cure all my worries forever."
He went on to inform Bess that his company was billeted in a large chateau 15 miles from Le Mans along with five batteries which made it crowded. The Captain said that the men had to walk up 88 steps to get to their quarters. He added that inspections were a daily ritual.
Captain Truman closed with....
"I've got to run and catch the train."
SOURCE
"World War I Letter, Harry S Truman to Bess Wallace, March 15, 1919", Harry S Truman Library and Museum, www.trumanlibrary.org/
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