Crisp County GaArchives Military Records.....CHEEK, PFC HAROLD June 4, 1945
WWII - Letters U.S ARMY  1ST BATTALION 118 INF CFO 2ND BAT 16 INF.
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GUERILLAS TELL CORDELEANS OF JUNGLE WAR
  THE FOLLOWING LETERS ARE FROM TWO GUERILLAD SOLDIERS TO RELATIVES OF A CORDELE
SOLDIER,PFC HAROLD L. CHEEK,WITH WHOM THEY FOUGHT IN THE JUNGLE
 MRS R D WILLIAMS 
 DEAD MADAM;
 IT IS WITH STRANGE FEELING OF BEING HAPPILY OUT OF PLACE AS I COME TO KNOW YOU
THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION OF YOUR NEPHEW AND MY FRIND, HAROLD L CHEEK OF COMPANY
''F'' 167 INF.I WRITE THEREFORE ON THE BELIEF THAT IT MIGHT NOT DO ANY HARM AND
CERTAINLY NOTHING TO LOSE BUT SOMETHING OR EVERYTHING TO GAIN BY COMMUNICATING WITH
PEOPLE WHO ARE ''IN THE LAND OF THE FREE IN THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.''
 WITH REGARD TO MYSELF I AM A GUERILLA SOLDIER. LIVED IN THE FORRESTS AND MOUNTAINS
PATIENTLY WAITING WITH HOPE AND FORTITUDE FOR THE LANDING OF THE AMERICAN LIBERATION
FORCES, CERTAIN THAT GOD NEVER ABANDONS A PEOPLE WHOEVER FOLLOWS HIS UNERRING AND
GUIDING HAND.
 WE HAD TWO ENEMIES- O0NE IN FRONT, THE JAPS AND THE ORO BANDITS. BUT WE KEPT ON
DOGGEDLY. THE SUGAR COATED PROPAGANDA OF THE YELOW BASTARDS NEVER TURNED US A BIT.
WE SCREWED UP OUR COURAGE, FOR WE KNEW THAT THE WORLD HAS OCCASIONALLY REWARDED
HONEST EFFORTS IN LOWLY PLACES AND UNEXPECTED LARGESS. TRUE ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY THE
AMERICANS.
 SORRY THAT I CAN'T SEND YOU A PICTURE. I WOULD  LIKE PERHAPS TO SEND YOU ONE SO YOU
CAN SEE HOW HOMELY OR UGLY A GUERILLA IS.THAT OF MY SWEETIE'S TOO, BUT SHE CAN NOT
SET UP FOR A PICTURE OWING  NOT TO CONCEAL THE SAD FACT  FOR L 

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