letter home nurse ww1
My dearest Mother,
I am missing you dearly and I hope everything is well. I am getting very home sick, life here is different than over there. I can hear sounds of the battlefield and it’s very frightening. We also get very little sleep and it is so cold here. The food is so plain; we rarely eat meat. We eat mostly beans, potatoes and soup. I’m getting so tired of it. Many of the things I see are very disturbing but it feels good to help these men. Some of them have talked to me about their families or what they plan to do after the war. I like to hear them being positive. I’ve started keeping a diary and I’ve even started writing poems. This helps me take all my emotions out. It feels really good, but you know what doesn’t? Feeling to dirty all the time. I feel like I feel this way most of the time. We have to take sponge baths with cold water, which doesn’t help at all. Many girls have not been able to handle all of this and have gone home but that won’t happen to me. Everything here moves so fast and the men come and go or we have to move and some are left behind. I get very sad when I think about those men and if they had families or not. Maybe that’s why some girls are leaving, I don’t blame them. I hope to see you and Father and sister soon, I hope this is all over really soon. I miss you all so much it hurts. I’ve made some friends but I wish I was at home in my own bed, or having dinner with all of you. Ill be home soon!
Love, Leslie
I am missing you dearly and I hope everything is well. I am getting very home sick, life here is different than over there. I can hear sounds of the battlefield and it’s very frightening. We also get very little sleep and it is so cold here. The food is so plain; we rarely eat meat. We eat mostly beans, potatoes and soup. I’m getting so tired of it. Many of the things I see are very disturbing but it feels good to help these men. Some of them have talked to me about their families or what they plan to do after the war. I like to hear them being positive. I’ve started keeping a diary and I’ve even started writing poems. This helps me take all my emotions out. It feels really good, but you know what doesn’t? Feeling to dirty all the time. I feel like I feel this way most of the time. We have to take sponge baths with cold water, which doesn’t help at all. Many girls have not been able to handle all of this and have gone home but that won’t happen to me. Everything here moves so fast and the men come and go or we have to move and some are left behind. I get very sad when I think about those men and if they had families or not. Maybe that’s why some girls are leaving, I don’t blame them. I hope to see you and Father and sister soon, I hope this is all over really soon. I miss you all so much it hurts. I’ve made some friends but I wish I was at home in my own bed, or having dinner with all of you. Ill be home soon!
Love, Leslie