"I guess you all are wondering where I am May. Well many miles away
and settled at last and ready for some hard work. The sooner we get
into it the quicker it is going to be over and all admit that it is
up to America to finish the job and what I have been able to hear,
they think it will be over in two or three months. Well the sooner
the better now that we have come this far. Have sure traveled some
and will have loads to tell you when I come home."--Lt. W.
Ellsworth Gregory. Letters from soldiers to local newspapers during
wartime had been popular since the Civil War, but World War I
marked the end of this practice, as most letters were highly
censored to keep the names of cities and landmarks from the public
in an effort to keep any military intelligence from the enemy in
World War II. This work is a collection of letters, stories, and
oral histories of Pennsylvanians in World War I. The letters and
stories compiled here were published in local newspapers, and now
give readers a rare look at what their writers experienced in the
trenches, in the air, on the sea, in the hospitals, and on the home
front during the war.
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