<p>''Dear Homefolks'' is the story of Roy Thompson, one of the more than 3.5 million Americans who served in France during World War I, told through his letters, diaries and photographs. The book was compiled and edited by his son, Dale Thompson, who found the archive after his father's death in 1978. Roy's is not a story of generals and grand strategies, nor of the soldier-hero, nor even of a man serving in the front lines. Like ninety percent of the American Expeditionary Force in France, he served behind the lines, supporting those who moved the Army forward to the Allied victory in November of 1918. Roy joined an Army undergoing unprecedented growth. To the credit of the screening process, his teamwork and mechanical skills were identified and he was assigned a position as an auto mechanic. This led to an assignment that served the needs of the Army and permitted him to grow into a very different man from the one he would have been had not war intervened. In January 1919, while still in France, Roy lost his right foot in a railway accident. From that point the letters shift to his experiences within the military medical system. Nine hospitals later he was discharged from the Army, 13 months after the accident, with an artificial foot and a burning desire for more education. The letters and diary entries Roy left behind provide a ground-level record of the American Expeditionary Force during the Great War. ''Dear Homefolks'' is a compelling view of what it means to experience the confusion of war.</p>

Dear Homefolks / A Doughboy's Letters and Diaries Written by an American Soldier from 1917 to 1920, During and After World War I

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Roy Evans Thompson

Dale Thompson

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Dear Homefolks / A Doughboy's Letters and Diaries Written by an American Soldier from 1917 to 1920, During and After World War I