WWI Veteran
"ROUND LAKE LADY HEARS FROM BROTHER
Mrs. Elizabeth Hendee, of Round Lake, is in receipt of the following letter from her brother, Frank Kretschmer:
April 21, 1918
Somewhere in France,
Dear Sister Elizabeth:-
This is Sunday evening and I am thinking of you and the folks at home. It is raining this evening and such weather generally causes my thoughts to travel homeward, but I do not get homesick.
I have no desire to come back home until Germany is thoroughly beaten and unable to carry on another war for centuries to come. The longer I stay over here and the more I see and learn of German cruelties, the more determined I am to help the Allies defeat the barbarous Huns. I would rather never return to the United States than see the Huns win the war, but then I am coming back to the states, so you can see who is going to win, according to my views.
The questions which you ask in your March 6, letter - are true. If you can assist the Red Cross, do so, dear sister, for the Red Cross is a Godsend to thousands of homeless and penniless people who have been driven from their homes. The Red Cross also acts as parents of children whose parents have been put to death by the cruel Huns.
I do not write about the most atrocious acts which the Huns have committed in Belgium, because the censor would not let my letters pass through the mails, I have talked with many French, English and American soldiers who have returned from the front and the stories of cruelties committed by the Huns are enough to make a fellow's blood boil with rage.
Love and best wishes to all, from brother.
Frank Kretschmer" *Source-Libertyville Independent (Libertyville IL) Thursday, June 20, 1918, page 7
Bio info provided by Vernon B Paddock (46984111)
"ROUND LAKE LADY HEARS FROM BROTHER
Mrs. Elizabeth Hendee, of Round Lake, is in receipt of the following letter from her brother, Frank Kretschmer:
April 21, 1918
Somewhere in France,
Dear Sister Elizabeth:-
This is Sunday evening and I am thinking of you and the folks at home. It is raining this evening and such weather generally causes my thoughts to travel homeward, but I do not get homesick.
I have no desire to come back home until Germany is thoroughly beaten and unable to carry on another war for centuries to come. The longer I stay over here and the more I see and learn of German cruelties, the more determined I am to help the Allies defeat the barbarous Huns. I would rather never return to the United States than see the Huns win the war, but then I am coming back to the states, so you can see who is going to win, according to my views.
The questions which you ask in your March 6, letter - are true. If you can assist the Red Cross, do so, dear sister, for the Red Cross is a Godsend to thousands of homeless and penniless people who have been driven from their homes. The Red Cross also acts as parents of children whose parents have been put to death by the cruel Huns.
I do not write about the most atrocious acts which the Huns have committed in Belgium, because the censor would not let my letters pass through the mails, I have talked with many French, English and American soldiers who have returned from the front and the stories of cruelties committed by the Huns are enough to make a fellow's blood boil with rage.
Love and best wishes to all, from brother.
Frank Kretschmer" *Source-Libertyville Independent (Libertyville IL) Thursday, June 20, 1918, page 7
Bio info provided by Vernon B Paddock (46984111)
WWI Veteran
"ROUND LAKE LADY HEARS FROM BROTHER
Mrs. Elizabeth Hendee, of Round Lake, is in receipt of the following letter from her brother, Frank Kretschmer:
April 21, 1918
Somewhere in France,
Dear Sister Elizabeth:-
This is Sunday evening and I am thinking of you and the folks at home. It is raining this evening and such weather generally causes my thoughts to travel homeward, but I do not get homesick.
I have no desire to come back home until Germany is thoroughly beaten and unable to carry on another war for centuries to come. The longer I stay over here and the more I see and learn of German cruelties, the more determined I am to help the Allies defeat the barbarous Huns. I would rather never return to the United States than see the Huns win the war, but then I am coming back to the states, so you can see who is going to win, according to my views.
The questions which you ask in your March 6, letter - are true. If you can assist the Red Cross, do so, dear sister, for the Red Cross is a Godsend to thousands of homeless and penniless people who have been driven from their homes. The Red Cross also acts as parents of children whose parents have been put to death by the cruel Huns.
I do not write about the most atrocious acts which the Huns have committed in Belgium, because the censor would not let my letters pass through the mails, I have talked with many French, English and American soldiers who have returned from the front and the stories of cruelties committed by the Huns are enough to make a fellow's blood boil with rage.
Love and best wishes to all, from brother.
Frank Kretschmer" *Source-Libertyville Independent (Libertyville IL) Thursday, June 20, 1918, page 7
Bio info provided by Vernon B Paddock (46984111)
"ROUND LAKE LADY HEARS FROM BROTHER
Mrs. Elizabeth Hendee, of Round Lake, is in receipt of the following letter from her brother, Frank Kretschmer:
April 21, 1918
Somewhere in France,
Dear Sister Elizabeth:-
This is Sunday evening and I am thinking of you and the folks at home. It is raining this evening and such weather generally causes my thoughts to travel homeward, but I do not get homesick.
I have no desire to come back home until Germany is thoroughly beaten and unable to carry on another war for centuries to come. The longer I stay over here and the more I see and learn of German cruelties, the more determined I am to help the Allies defeat the barbarous Huns. I would rather never return to the United States than see the Huns win the war, but then I am coming back to the states, so you can see who is going to win, according to my views.
The questions which you ask in your March 6, letter - are true. If you can assist the Red Cross, do so, dear sister, for the Red Cross is a Godsend to thousands of homeless and penniless people who have been driven from their homes. The Red Cross also acts as parents of children whose parents have been put to death by the cruel Huns.
I do not write about the most atrocious acts which the Huns have committed in Belgium, because the censor would not let my letters pass through the mails, I have talked with many French, English and American soldiers who have returned from the front and the stories of cruelties committed by the Huns are enough to make a fellow's blood boil with rage.
Love and best wishes to all, from brother.
Frank Kretschmer" *Source-Libertyville Independent (Libertyville IL) Thursday, June 20, 1918, page 7
Bio info provided by Vernon B Paddock (46984111)
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