This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dugay Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/259 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, June 10, 1918 TWO BOYS IN SERVICE SEND WORD HOME STERLING F. AMICK AT FT. SILL AND FRANK DUGAY AT GREAT LAKES BOTH ARE VERY WELL PLEASED And Remember Mothers with Letters that Are Interesting – Glad They’re Serving Great Lakes, Ill., June 2. Dear Mother: Well, as it is Sunday I will try and write you a line or two. It sure has been a fine day. We all went to church this morning, went to an entertainment this afternoon, also an address given by a Methodist minister of Chicago and it was sure fine. I sure will be glad to get out of detention for then we get shore leave and can go all over the camp. We were marched over to the main camp yesterday to make moving pictures. If I can get hold of one at the canteen, I will send you one. There were 32 went out of our barracks. I was among them. I judge there were about 15,000 of us in the picture. We were formed in a group so as to spell the word “Victory.” The building we have church and all the entertainments in is about 500 feet long and 150 feet wide. It is called the armory. The rifles and guns for Camp Perry are in there. They hang in racks along the wall and each gets his rifle as he goes by. We have had some rifle practice. It is fine. We practice handling the rifle but haven’t had any target practice. I don’t know whether we will have any or not. I haven’t received my Journal but once. You had better call them up and have them change my address to Camp Perry as the mail is all held over at Camp Decatur and sometimes we don’t get it at all. I haven’t received a letter from Pearl since I’ve been here. Do not know what’s the matter. They keep a fellow so busy that he hasn’t much time to write only just as he can grab a minute now and then. I sent all the folks a card. There are some more I want to write to when I get time. There sure was a bunch of visitors here today. Wednesdays and Sundays are visitors days and the camp is full those days. They bring the boys packages of all kinds, most generally something good to eat, candy or cake, as they don’t need anything else. We have a real piano player in our barracks and to over to the cook galley most every night and play and sing. The poor fellow is going to get kicked out of the navy as he has broken arches. Well I must close. Write real often as I like to get your letters. With lots of love, FRANK DUGAY