Dear Mammy, Pappy, Mat, Mary and Oliver,
Received letters from Mom and Mat today with the pictures. The boys got a great kick out of those pictures, especially the one where I am smelling the rose.
Here is is Saturday night and all the boys are brooding over the tests we had today. Boy- they were honeys.
The fourth battalion left yesterday and now my battalion is the senior- senior present. Another four weeks and I will be out of this place. It's pretty certain that our group will go west since the last stayed in the east. Now all the boys are praying that we get a leave. The most we will get is four days but that is better than nothing.
In another three weeks they are supposed to issue another uniform. They will be the winter green. Maybe you might have seen some officers wearing them last winter. It's not like the C.C.C. uniforms Gallagher had, but more like the Marine Corps. Real sharp stuff.
It seems I get less sleep every night. Anyone that tells you that sleeping hours of the serviceman is good for you is a little touched in the head. Nothing like sleep.
How's Mary making out at the bank? Still taking guff from "Flash". I owe so many letters to those in the bank that it isn't even funny.
I don't want to write too long because the boys are waiting for me.
I will bed you "Good-night"
Your loving son, brother and nephew,
Jim
Thursday, July 1, 2010
July 26, 1943
Dear Folks,
Here is it 0215 and your darling Navy man is up while all the rest sleep (snore) so peacefully. Is it horrible?I hate to think of how I am going to feel when they wake me up at 0530.
The trip was uneventful except that two M.P. sat right in front of us on the entire ride. My friend, Gene Cole and myself almost swallowed our tongue when they stopped in front of us but these two just sat there and bothered no one.
As we hit Albany we ran into a terrific thunderstorm. Boy- did it come down. Just our luck that the train pulled in where there was no shed so our rain covers were christened. As usual we enjoyed that fast, wild, cab ride through Albany to Troy. Even in all that rain, we were hitting 60 most of the time.
My gosh am I tired. I think I could sleep for a year and still not catch up on the sleep that I have lost since I have been in the Navy. "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise. I don't know how true that is. There's about 600 men up here who seem to agree that an extra hour sleep in the morning would make everyone more healthy and happy.
One of the boys from my platoon has been sick for a month and a half and just came back last night. He has been up in Maine, swimming and sailing and just leading a lazy life. The only catch is that he is to be put back two battalions. The is two more months up here.
It's funny to hear so many snoring at the same time. What variety, it seems as if everyone has developed something different.
I had better close I want to drop a line to Bobby and a few other fellows before 0400.
Your loving son,
Jim
Here is it 0215 and your darling Navy man is up while all the rest sleep (snore) so peacefully. Is it horrible?I hate to think of how I am going to feel when they wake me up at 0530.
The trip was uneventful except that two M.P. sat right in front of us on the entire ride. My friend, Gene Cole and myself almost swallowed our tongue when they stopped in front of us but these two just sat there and bothered no one.
As we hit Albany we ran into a terrific thunderstorm. Boy- did it come down. Just our luck that the train pulled in where there was no shed so our rain covers were christened. As usual we enjoyed that fast, wild, cab ride through Albany to Troy. Even in all that rain, we were hitting 60 most of the time.
My gosh am I tired. I think I could sleep for a year and still not catch up on the sleep that I have lost since I have been in the Navy. "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise. I don't know how true that is. There's about 600 men up here who seem to agree that an extra hour sleep in the morning would make everyone more healthy and happy.
One of the boys from my platoon has been sick for a month and a half and just came back last night. He has been up in Maine, swimming and sailing and just leading a lazy life. The only catch is that he is to be put back two battalions. The is two more months up here.
It's funny to hear so many snoring at the same time. What variety, it seems as if everyone has developed something different.
I had better close I want to drop a line to Bobby and a few other fellows before 0400.
Your loving son,
Jim
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