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    Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace, October 6, 1918. Family, Business, and Personal Affairs File, Truman Papers.


Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace
     


Letter, Harry S. Truman to Bess Wallace

 

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Oct. 6, 1918

Dear Bess:
      This is the first opportunity I have had to write you since the day I wrote from the woods before the big drive began. I am very sorry to have been so long but things have happened to me so rapidly I couldn't write. There was no chance to mail them if I could have. The great drive has taken place and I had a part in it, a very small one but nevertheless a part. The experience has been one that I can never forget, one that I don't want to go through again unless the Lord wills but one I'd never have missed for anything. The papers are in the street now saying that the Central Powers have asked for peace, and I was in the drive that did it! I shot out a German battery, shot up his big observation post, and ruined another battery when it was moving

     
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