Two Train Loads of Soldiers

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Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 5/17/2010 at 18:46:42

The Grinnell Herald (Grinnell, Iowa) Oct. 25, 1918

TWO TRAIN LOADS OF SOLDIERS

Many Fighting Men Pass Through Grinnell Wednesday on Their Way From Coast to Coast.

Two train loads of Uncle Sam's fighting men went through here on the Rock Island bound eastward Wednesday. One train carried soldiers from Washington, Oregon and Idaho. They stopped here, and about twenty of the boys handed Policeman Gregson and others written postal cards to be mailed here to their mothers on the coast. One card said: "We are all here somewhere in Iowa speeding to the Atlantic seaboard. We have traveled through seven states but have seen nothing so good as these corn fields in the middle west. They are great. Will write again when we get to Berlin."

The boys had ridden so long that they imagined they were in the middle east. They were a hilarious lot, and apparently the fears of the Hun or the flu were far from them.