Help with a signature. Old script

[Mike Haas]

Got a letter written by a soldier on December 03 1917 at Camp Dodge Iowa.

He was writing about the new draftees coming to the Camp. I was going to post the letter but he used the "N" word which was common practice is those days.

I would like to ID the signature but can not read the last name. His first name is Willard.

I will try to track the name from there and maybe send the letter back to camp dodge. If any of our forum members live near there or in Iowa, I would appreciate a mailing address.

Google Camp Dodge and it was quite active for many years. Had a movie theatre that held 3,000 GI"S

Also , it was a place that a photographer assembled up to 30,000 GIs to form various images. Most famous was the Statue of Liberty. Those images are on the web site.

AF MEDIC - OK..lets see if it works this way...

[Mike Haas]

AF MEDIC - OK..lets see if it works this way...

Two more that hopefully we be large enough to read.

[A. F Medic]

Mike THANK YOU very much!! Saved me a lot of work! Now my work will start by trying to track down any family members....

[Mike Haas]

Mike THANK YOU very much!! Saved me a lot of work! Now my work will start by trying to track down any family members....

AF - There's a "family member" maintaining a "Family Tree" on ancestry.com where I found your guy.

I can email her if you want but I'd rather have your direct email address so you two can work out whatever you want to do. She was just on the "Tree Site" yesterday so I know it's active.

Up to you...I'll send her an email along with your email address if you want. You can contact me direct at TCL2B@Yahoo.Com with your wishs. After that I'm out of it.

[A. F Medic]

AF - There's a "family member" maintaining a "Family Tree" on ancestry.com where I found your guy.

I can email her if you want but I'd rather have your direct email address so you two can work out whatever you want to do. She was just on the "Tree Site" yesterday so I know it's active.

Up to you...I'll send her an email along with your email address if you want. You can contact me direct at TCL2B@Yahoo.Com with your wishs. After that I'm out of it.

Looks like you came to the rescue again! I have to switch to aol to send mail other than personal messages from this web site. I will try to send you my email address in a PM from here
I appreciate your efforts and I will let you know what happens! Thanks again!!

[A. F Medic]

Tell you what. My email address is tuggeries@aol .com. I look forward to hearing from the family members.

[TDH]

I may post the letter but I do not know if the other forum members would be able to read it if I just sent both pages. It would have to be enlarged to read it. I think. Maybe one of the moderators ( I had MADERATORS) could inform me.

Letter is sort of boring but this guy must have been an orderly as he was using his CO's desk and his paper to write in ink on. He was also the bugler for morning wake ups. Probably no body like him for that!

In AF boot camp, we heard,"It is now 0600 hours and all lights will be turned on"! Thanks!!

Lucky you our DI's beat on trash cans and screamed alot.

[Mike Haas]

Tell you what. My email address is tuggeries@aol .com. I look forward to hearing from the family members.

AF - check your email (AOL)..

[A. F Medic]

Nothing yet. Last email received was about 4:00 PM EST..This day Thursday. I will let you know or private message me through this forum. Thanks again!!

[Mike Haas]

Looks like you came to the rescue again! I have to switch to aol to send mail other than personal messages from this web site. I will try to send you my email address in a PM from here
I appreciate your efforts and I will let you know what happens! Thanks again!!

AF - There's a "family member" maintaining a "Family Tree" on ancestry.com where I found your guy.

I can email her if you want but I'd rather have your direct email address so you two can work out whatever you want to do. She was just on the "Tree Site" yesterday so I know it's active.

Up to you...I'll send her an email along with your email address if you want. You can contact me direct at TCL2B@Yahoo.Com with your wishs. After that I'm out of it.

AFMEDIC - After 6 months the lady responded to my post on Ancestry.Com reference WILLARD MATHIAS BARR - She provided a direct email address if your still interested.