NeverarGreat said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I was just looking through some of my families old heirlooms and found a series of letters written by my great uncle from when he was in France during the first World War.

That's super cool. I wonder if he knew my great grandfather - he was an American who drove ambulances in France in WWI, and we still have his journals from that time.

That'd be neat if they did, they were probably both there at the same and for about the same amount of time since the US was only in the war for about a year. My uncle was actually wounded in battle, maybe he rode in one of those ambulances. Sadly we don't know which family member still has his purple heart medal, if it even still exists, but to my knowledge we have all the letters he wrote, plus two pictures of him taken while in France, he looks miserable in the photos but I can't blame him given how brutal that war was.

Was your great grandfather a volunteer, or was he in the military?