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Show BINGHAM SOLDIER WRITES Til ASKEW One of the interesting letters from soldiers received during the past few davs was one from K. S. Kim, Fort Sill, Oklnhoina, to William Askew. The letter reads as follows: ' "To His Excellency, the Postmaster of Bingham: Compliments of the season. sea-son. However thanks for the liberty, as you termed it. To me it was a sunbeam sun-beam to a gloomy sphere, for ever since I donned a uniform I have ben desolate for want of sympathy and perhaps a little outRide correspondence. correspond-ence. It's no joke to be here and pass the days alone, forgotten and shut off from the liberties that may be had in civil life. . "Am now permanently stationed with the MOth Field Signal battalion of the 30th division. The work is rather interesting, as we have to learn semaphore wlgwarging, telegraph, telephone and radio operating, besides being a soldier. By the boxing up of our supplies and addresses of "Amerl. can Expeditionary Forces" on the boxes, I'm of the belief that we are to cross the pond very pronto. However, we in the ranks are but the least of things what our sup?riors decide we are never to know; so, like the luconic Mexican "quien sane", but I have hopes and by all the gags that are slung around Joe's place, I swear that I am rearing to go to the bloody fields of Europe and get shot full of German lead or else eat sauerkraut and wen-nles wen-nles In Berlin. "But man! Bubbles are bubbles, and when cold facts stare at us there is no telling Just what stuff one's made of. If you get any mall for me just mall it to I'te Khil ?. Kim. Company C, 110th Fiild Slg., Bn.. Camp Dono-phan, Dono-phan, Fort Sill. Oklahoma. Au revolr. Sincerely, K. S. Kim." |
