{"id":1413,"date":"1944-07-20T20:01:57","date_gmt":"1944-07-20T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2019-07-05T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T19:08:22","slug":"but-five-franc-is-only-ten-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"But five Franc is only ten cents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"374\" height=\"591\" src=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20.1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1414\" data-link=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?attachment_id=1414\" class=\"wp-image-1414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20.1.jpeg 374w, http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20.1-190x300.jpeg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"366\" height=\"588\" src=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20.2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1415\" data-link=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?attachment_id=1415\" class=\"wp-image-1415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20.2.jpeg 366w, http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20.2-187x300.jpeg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"371\" height=\"588\" src=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1416\" data-link=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?attachment_id=1416\" class=\"wp-image-1416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_3.jpeg 371w, http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_3-189x300.jpeg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"582\" src=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1417\" data-link=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?attachment_id=1417\" class=\"wp-image-1417\" srcset=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_4.jpeg 362w, http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_4-187x300.jpeg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"588\" src=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1418\" data-link=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?attachment_id=1418\" class=\"wp-image-1418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_6.jpeg 360w, http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1944.7.20_6-184x300.jpeg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 20, 1944<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Ann,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will start this letter to-night. It is eight o&#8217;clock and I am tired as heck didn&#8217;t get much sleep the last two nights So I am about to hit the hay. It is raining sorta light kinda sleepy weather. So I should catch up on a little shut eye. I always like to get all the sleep I can because one never knows when he will have to stay up several sites in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well! how is everything back home? Our latest rumor is that we will be eating Christmas dinner at home. Boy! We sure are hoping that comes true.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I got a letter from Garnet she wrote it the fourth. She got a letter from me from France. So far I did not hear from you since I am in France. What I mean is answering on the letters I wrote from here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh you know that in dollars I owe you. Well I will send you half of it in French money. Then some day I will send you the rest. I bet I could believe that is five dollars. But five Franc is only ten cents. Maybe you will like it for a souvenir even if it is only ten cents all of the small change is in paper we don&#8217;t have a thing to spend money on over here. So maybe now I will save some. I put some in the army saving and some I send to Ben to put in the bank for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sat July 22nd. Well I will try and finish this to nite run out of news the other right. so I went to bed and yesterday and last nite I was at the Ordnance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well this is Sat night I just had to ask what day it was. Gosh but one is like another Sat and Sun don&#8217;t count over here.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I got a letter from Helen, Cora and Cec. All were V-mail. Helen said she was sick. I hope she is better by now. I still didn&#8217;t get a letter from you I think you was the first one I wrote to from France. But I guess I won&#8217;t get all of the letters. By the way Helen&#8217;s letter sounded she wrote me one and I never got it. any how she said she mentioned she wrote about a party they had for George. But I read it in the Monroe paper. &#8220;So it Goes&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Cut my hair off short) So. Ben +Helen are going to have another upright. Boy! O Boy! they certainly are going to town. Guess they will have to built on another room. Ha. Ha.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yes!&nbsp; if you see Ben or Helen before I wrote or maybe I might even for get to mention it to them. About that money I send home. it was after I send the letter and pictures tell them not to worry about it. It will get there eventually. Money usually takes a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well guess this is about it for this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With love Your Bro. Felix<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France July 20, 1944 Dear Ann, I will start this letter to-night. It is eight o&#8217;clock and I am tired as heck didn&#8217;t get much sleep the last two nights So I am about to hit the hay. It is raining sorta light kinda sleepy weather. 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