To Hattie and Cooper Stubbs | Sincerely, Joel C. SwisherSincerely, Joel C. Swisher

To Hattie and Cooper Stubbs

Posted by Joel C. Swisher on December 31, '17

The town in which we spent Xmas 1917

Showing the barn I slept in Xmas 1917

[Christmas Eve, 1967, Palatine, Illinois:

“Fifty years ago tonight I was sleeping in a barn in France. It was a bitter cold night with snow on the ground, like it is here tonight. It was an old stone barn and there was lots of straw for us to dig into in order to keep warm. I couldn’t help but think about how I was sleeping in a barn on the night Christ was born in a similar place so long ago.”]
- ← Dec. 30, 1917
- Jan. 8, 1918, American Expeditionary Force →
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