OVERSEAS
Letter from Charles Kandel to
his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Kandle o f Estacada. written on
Christmas Day 1918. He enlist
ed in the navy only last A u g u s t
and has had since an experience
for which he may well be envied.
“ I’ m glad I’ m not in the
Atlantic fleet just now, because
snowballs are ripe on the Atlantic
coast while oranges are ripe here.
I can step out any day here and
pick all o f them I want, while
olive trees are everywhere pres
ent.
In fact, our tool room is
built right under a big olive tree.
“ We are surrounded here by
water, all parts o f the Adriatic
and Mediterranean seas.
The
coasts are barren, rocky and
mountainous and just across from
us a few miles away and easily in
sight is the Albanian coast.
“ When 1 came here the front
was but a short distance and
when the Bulgarians drove the
Serbians south, they migrated to
this place.
All around in differ
ent directions there are grave
yards where thousands o f Serbian
men, women and children are
buried, having died from starv
ation and influenza, often called
here Mediterranean fever.
“ I won’ t describe Corfu, for
I’ d hate to use the language
necessary to do it justice, and I ’d
have you know a sailor can spill
English with anyone.
Anyway
they have a high regard for
American sailors and in fact the
whole world was astonished at the
way Uncle Sam came over here
into this hell hole. ’ ’
Although young Kandle loves
the navy and would “ rather face
a dozen naval battles than one
trench,” he recalls one day’s
scrap with the Hun submarines
that made him think he’d lost
his luck.
“ It was on the Bay of Biscay,”
he writes, “ and it looked as
though some o f us would get our
names in the daily papers as
‘among those missing.
I saw
one gunner do some o f the great
est shooting with a five-inch gun
I’ ve ever seen and his hits saved
us. “
In traveling from Brest. France,
across Europe to Corfu, this
young tar from Estacada touched
at every city and watering place
of France and Italy worth
mentioning and viewed all the
ancient glories of Romo, the Vat
ican, the coliseum and the cata
combs.
St. Argnai., Noyers
Jan. 6. 1919.
Editor Eastern t'lackamas News.
Estacada. Oregon.
Thursday, February 6, 1919
EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS
Page Two
Dear Sir:
On the eve o f our expected and
probable departure from France
for the good old U. S. A., I can
not help but drop you a line o f
appreciation that you and your
predecessor are entitled to from
myself and other Estacadans,
serving over here.
For over a year your paper has
reached my billet in France, and
for over half that time I welcom
ed it in the states also, and I like
every other fellow who gets a
paper from home, can testify that
it runs a mighty close second to
a letter from home, and the letter
from home is the most welcome
thing that any soldier ever re
ceives, not even excepting meals
and pay day.
O f course I don’ t
always get my papers in order,
but such little trifles as reading
in one News that E. H. S. wallop
ed Oregon City high 70 to 0, or
some such score, and then in the
next paper, read that the E. H.
S. football team will soon start
practicing for the seasons foot
ball games, don’ t bother us very
much, especially an alumnus o f
old E. H. S. who remembers past
games between the same schools.
Our original 6rder for depart
ure from .here called for our
division to begin moving today,
but it has been postponed one
week, and our one hope now is
that it will not be postponed
longer.
Just one more thing to write
and then I will close.
For over
six months our division has been
stationed here with a cadre o f
fifty “ non-coms” to a company
training men for the front.
I
have seen men from all parts o f
the United States and I have yet
to see tne equal, physically or*^
mentally, o f the man from the
northwest.
As a division the
forty-first never saw the lines,
altho seventy-five per cent o f the
individual men comprised the
division which crossed a year ago
saw actual duty in the trenches.
The twenty-five per cent o f us
who remained behind as a train
ing cache did not do so’, on our
own choice, as there was not a
one in the whole division that did
not want to do “ his bit” in the
trenches, and now that they are
about to return to the states and
are termed “ lucky” by all. the
fellow who never saw the line
still calls himself “ unlucky”
when he sees some other fellow
proudly wearing that little gold
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