Summary
Several years ago, I came across some old family letters in a cigar box. Among them was a newspaper clipping of a letter from an uncle I had never met. I had known of him, however.
He died some years before I was born. In 1918 at 23, he was gunned down by the Germans in a WWI battle near the Argonne Forest in France. He was to die in a war with a country that his ancestors had fled from in order to escape wars.See the full content of this document
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Uncle's 1916 Note Captures Early L.B. Life
Edward Leo Eich was his name. He was from a small farming community in Illinois. Before being drafted into the army, he came to Long Beach to visit his father, sister, aunt and uncle. They...
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