HARRY TRUMAN WRITES BESS ON YEAR'S LAST DAY
Camp La Baholle, near Verdun (JFK+50) On December 31, 1918, Captain Harry S Truman wrote a letter to Bess Wallace...
"You see I am ending the year properly by writing you a letter on the last day. I am going to Verdun tomorrow or next day and shall in all probability get the iron cross."
Truman wrote that on New Year's Day 1919, a few boxing bouts and wresting matches would be held.
The Captain added...
"Maybe a basketball game or two."
SOURCE
"World War I Letter, Harry S Truman to Bess Wallace, December 31 1918", Harry S Truman Library and Museum, www.trumanlibrary.org/
Truman Wedding
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