Spitball Army

Shall we start off with the bad news first? Well – here it is! There will be no furlough.

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Send me those directions as to how to get there again.

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I’ve just got time to tell you I love you.

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We signed the payroll and guess what I get? — I owe the government 88¢ for my first 6 weeks training.

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We started firing our rifle yesterday. That’s really fun as far as I’m concerned.

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Tomorrow we start firing our rifle, the M-1. Up till now, we have just had schooling on how to shoot. Tomorrow we see if we learned anything.

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I forgot to tell you that the cake got here and was properly taken care of the same evening. It was very good.

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You make me very unhappy at times. When I read parts of your last letter, it was one of those times.

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You said you couldn’t understand why we had to go to the show. Well, they don’t want us to get homesick. So they try to keep us busy all the time.

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I am a squad leader, and I’m just a go-between for the instructor. He gives orders and the squad leaders give them to everybody else in the plattoon.

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