Kenneth McAffee Ralston Letters 1916-1918

About 2015, I read through all of these hand written letters and transcribed them separately. I found it moving to learn about the life of my father and his mother and family. Getting a better understanding of his early life. Things I had not known when he was living. Especially touching to learn about his mother's life during a war when her oldest son was away in the trenches of France. And then read about her son's hospital stay as a result of a gas attack by the enemy. At the same time, her mother was stricken to bed and slowly dying. During this time the influenza epidemic was affecting family and friends. Often her husband was away all week in the North-woods of Wisconsin working as a railway surveyor. Yet, there is no word of discouragement or complaint by her.