{"id":351,"date":"1942-03-25T20:00:01","date_gmt":"1942-03-25T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2019-06-05T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:59:19","slug":"p-s-are-you-going-to-listen-to-the-fight-fri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"P.S. Are you going to listen to the fight Fri?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fort Lewis Wash\"\"<\/a>
\nMarch 25, 1942
\nDear Ben and All –<\/p>\n

I am just sitting around twiddling my thumb, so I will write you a few lines got your letter yesterday was looking for a letter from you for a could of days yet.<\/p>\n

I have to go on guard at 12:00 midnight to 4:00 so all I have to do until then is sleep, read or write I will send you some pictures of me and some of our half track. When we guard we sit in them with the top off. Have a machine gun, and two Thompson sub machine guns don’t do anything but sit on our hind-end, \u201cmine is sore from sitting so much\u201d Just watch for enemy airplain and any body that shouldn’t be around. gets awful tiresome. But I guess its better than
\nbeing in battle.<\/p>\n

The other two fellows in those picture are from Calif L.A. That one with me by the half track W 4013924 lives near Sylvia in Whittier his folks moved there
\nsince he has been in the army so he doesn’t know much about Whittier he is a Corp. The one with the over coat lives in down town L.A. He is going out on guard that is they way we dress for guard. That W-4013924 is the one I drive. One night we drove about 10 miles in black out and raining [unreadable] and driving throu a woods it sure was hell to see I never looked so hard in all my life. Just a night problem.<\/p>\n

I wonder how in heck T\/Furner get to come home so often?<\/p>\n

I got rid of my cold long ago. Feel very good again.<\/p>\n

The chickens are bring you good money this winter aren’t they. Ha. Ha. I’ll bet Walter [Balengak] will have one hell of a time the army for the first couple of week.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we took our third dipptheria shot. That makes six of those we had. Two Vaccination. My second one didn’t work. Altogether I had 12 shots. Now I don’t mine taking them half as much as first. So your getting the wood pretty well up. I’ll bet the pile is crooked since I am not there to pile it. ha. Nearly time to put ham in the smoke house ha.<\/p>\n

Another fellow saw in the paper that we wont have to pay tax till after the war he has to pay too. So I guess we wont send it in. It’s 4:00 here so I suppose you are milking about know.<\/p>\n

Well good bye until next time.<\/p>\n

P.S. Are you going to listen to the fight Fri? Felix<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Ringside ticket for the March 27, 1942 Joe Louis vs Abe Simon bout at Madison Square Garden. Louis KO’d Simon in the sixth round to retain the heavyweight title.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fort Lewis Wash March 25, 1942 Dear Ben and All – I am just sitting around twiddling my thumb, so I will write you a few lines got your letter yesterday was looking for a letter from you for a could of days yet. I have to go on guard at 12:00 midnight to 4:00 Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5,14],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fort-lewis","category-u-s","category-washington","tag-letter-to-ben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/caitlinpine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}