Spitball Army

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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As long as I am here, I can’t see you so I can’t see any reason for you spending the money to come out here. Don’t you think it rather foolish to spend that much money and then we won’t be together?

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They have a picture show every night and you have to go. The entertainment makes me tireder than the training we go through.

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I just came back from a pre-rating test in radio. I think I did fairly good on it.

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We got our second typhoid shot today and am I sick! My arm is so sore I can hardly move it and I’ve got a nice healthy cold on top of it.

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We are now in tents. There are 8 to a tent. In this one, there are 4 Southerners & 4 Northerners.

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Well, here we are in Los Angeles. We finally got this far anyway.

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Well, my watch crystal came off. Then I started to wind it and the main spring is broken. I guess I don’t need to know what time it is anyway. I’ll be going by the bugles before long anyway.

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