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Dear Relatives and any other interested party, These are the letters, we found when my Mom died.  They are obviously written to Grandma McCafferty from Grandpa McCafferty during World War I.  I apologize for the way the photos are.  I gave up on getting them correctly oriented.  Under Archive to the side you can see all the letters and my typewritten translation.  The dates are arranged as I could do it.  If the date listed is 2020 it is letters from 1919.  If the date is 2019 the letters are from 1918.  I tried to match Month for Month so they are orderd.   I'm sure there are typos and sometimes I could not read the writing. Other times the misspellings are Grandpas.  I hope you enjoy this bit of history. Janet

June 16 1919

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    June 16 1919 Arrived to day in the good old U.S.A.  It certainly looks good to me.  Feeling fine and dandy.  Sure anxious to see you.  Will write a good letter soon.  Remember me to all.  You know I send lots of love and then some.  As ever Clarence.

May 27 1919

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Postcard. Dear Honey  May 27-1919 Le Mans France Just a card to see who gets there first me or this card. Left Fleury last Tue May 20th and arrived here Thursday (22nd) noon.  Leave this afternoon for Brest and will soon be on the water. "Oh what a grand & glorious feeling -" to get back into "God's Country" once more.  This is some fine camp here.  Just wrote a letter to Schaf now telling him that I am going home. "toot sweet" Love from Clarence.

April 20, 1919

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Easter Sunday                                                                                                              Apr 20 1919 4 pm                                                                                                                                  Fleury, France Dear Ho...

April 12 1919

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Cook CR McCafferty 42nd Co T.C. APO 747 AEF-France                                                                                          Toul Apr 12 1919 Dear Honey,          Well my vacation is about over and here I am at Foul.  We left Monte Carlo Thur night at ten o'clock arriving in Marseilles about four a.m. Friday morning.  Left there at 5 am traveled thru Lyons Dijon and arrived at Issurtille about seven pm Friday night.  We had a special train all the way and made stops only to change engines.  We have about 1200 men on our train.  At Issurtille we change cars and left there about midnight arriving at Toul 7 a.m.  Have not had my clothes off since...

April 10 1919

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Dear Honey,  Well this is the last day of my leave here, so I thought I would write to you and also send a few pictures of your soldier boy home.  Gee I wish it was the real thing going instead of just the picture.  I also sent a few souvenirs home in a cigar box, maybe I might get over there before the box does.  I wish I could.  The last few days I have been staying around Monte Carlo, on acct of being broke.no I am not the only one broke why some of the boys had only been here about three days and had twice as much money as I had and were dead broke, I have about ten francs yet out of 225 that I brought with me.  Oh well when I get back to camp I will get paid about (127 franc) beside 38 francs that is owed to me and then I will be ready for another leave, that is if we don't go home soon.  Yesterday I wrote a letter to Laura and one to Grace, sending each of them a picture that leave me ten, so I will send four in this letter and having already sen...

April 6 1919

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