Dear Ben, Helen, all<\/p>\n
I will start this letter tonight but it is late, so I no I won’t finish it. There are two fellows sitting right next to my bed they keep talking to me, and if they aren’t I keep listening to them, half the time I don’t no what I am writing about.<\/p>\n
I got your box and also Helen’s letter with the $1.00 and the stamps.<\/p>\n
Gee thanks a lot for both of them, and thank Ruth and Rich very much for the cookies and cake, also your [Mothers], I thought it was awful nice of them.<\/p>\n
The Box came right on the right day I got it Sun Morning way out there where we were guarding. That noon we left back for Ft Lewis, a 180 mile ride on trucks there was 18 of us fellows in the back of the truck so I took the box and we ate it all up on the way.<\/p>\n
Boy I got more things this year. Oh! Yes Sun morning I got your Box and 7 letters some were cards. I got them all at once.<\/p>\n
\nSat I got a box of cookies from Dorothy \u201cDavis\u201d Wittman. Must be she think more of me now than when I went with her. Ha. Ha<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Today I got a box from Ray Meyer the fellow I worked with at Hills he sent me a set of everything, shaving cream, razor blades, tooth paste, hair tonic, shampoo, foot powder, comb, shaving cream, face lotion, finger nail clipper, 2 bars of candy. A box of 50 cigarettes and a package of gum. Boy its real nice but I don’t hardly no what I will do with it if we have to move around as much as we did for the last thru week.<\/p>\n
We are suppost to stay here here at Ft Lewis for about 2 weeks then as far as I no we will go out some where and guard.<\/p>\n
Today I got a box of candy and cookies from that girl I met up north that time Wayne, Harold B and I went up, her name is Lou [Malet] You send me a letter up here that she send out home, she didn’t no I was in the army. In fact I didn’t write to her for about a year. I send her a card from Sylvia that time Clint and I were there. Any how I wrote her a letter back after I got that one from her. Boy! Was I suprise when I got her box.<\/p>\n
Also today I got a long letter from John W. He said I had a box there from Ann. That they were sending to me that same day but I didn’t [unreadable] today so I suppose I will get it tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Gosh the first day back and they picked me and a friend of mine for K.P. There were about 10 of us K.P.s today as they had lots of pans from the trip while we were out guarding there were 4 fellows working all day long got done 8:00 P.M. \u201cwhat a day\u201d<\/u><\/p>\n
I’ll have to keep busy answering letters for a while till I catch up.<\/p>\n
I got Ann letter and money she sent me<\/p>\n
The weather here is better now it stopped raining since Christmas it is quite cold. Around 20 or 25 above. At night now snow only up in the mountains. I wish you could have saw that 180 miles we went over yesterday. Nice Country. But I’ll still take Michigan. I got you a card so I will mail this with the card. \u201cmore on the card.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Ben, Helen, all I will start this letter tonight but it is late, so I no I won’t finish it. There are two fellows sitting right next to my bed they keep talking to me, and if they aren’t I keep listening to them, half the time I don’t no what I am writing