{"id":9104,"date":"2010-12-29T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T05:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9104"},"modified":"2010-08-02T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T21:27:51","slug":"richard-to-alice-16-april-1946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9104","title":{"rendered":"Richard to Alice: 16 April 1946"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Written to Alice in Indianapolis, Indiana. \u00a0Return addressed: Richard, Ward 43, U.S.N.H., St. Albans, L.I., N.Y.\u00a0 Postmarked at Jamaica, N.Y., on\u00a016 Apr\u00a01946 at 1:30 P.M.]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">April 16, 1946<\/p>\n<p>Hello Sweetheart,<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I went to the show in the auditorium last night.\u00a0 What a picture!!\u00a0 &#8220;Lost Week-end&#8221;\u00a0 It was the funniest thing &#8211; the first place everybody went after the show was the nearest drinking fountain.\u00a0 The picture made me so thirsty that I couldn&#8217;t get enough water afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I got some &#8220;personel affects&#8221; back yesterday.\u00a0 It was some things that I had in my blanket roll, I think.\u00a0 There may have been some things fom my sea bag too.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember taking both pair of glasses with me.\u00a0 Anyhow, I got the glasses &#8211; one pair all broken to pieces and the other pair in one piece.\u00a0 They also sent back some letters and 15 stamped envelopes.\u00a0 I had to throw most of it away.\u00a0 It was green with mould and mildew.\u00a0 What a lovely smell.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We&#8217;re going bowling this afternoon.\u00a0 I&#8217;m on the ward team this week.\u00a0 We (the 43 Cripples) are bowling &#8220;The 102 Plastics.&#8221;\u00a0 Everyone on our team has either a bad arm of leg; and the other team, every man has had plastic surgery work done on his face.\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t anything wrong with their arms and legs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No more news Sweetheart.\u00a0 There isn&#8217;t a thing left to write but I love you.\u00a0 You already know that so I&#8217;ll just tell you again away.\u00a0 I love you Sweetheart.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good-night Sweetheart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love you with all my heart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pleasant dreams<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodnight Sweetheart<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 x x\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8216;Nite<\/p>\n<p>xx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trailer for <em>The Lost Weekend<\/em> (1945):<br \/>\n<span class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j-tefK9hkuM?wmode=transparent&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;showsearch=0&amp;rel=1&amp;theme=dark\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/images\/richardandalice\/1946\/Apr1946\/richardandalice_16Apr1946.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Richard to Alice: 16 April 1946\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"495\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 10px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/?p=9104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/j-tefK9hkuM\/0.jpg\" height=\"125\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re going bowling this afternoon.  I&#8217;m on the ward team this week.  We (the 43 Cripples) are bowling &#8220;The 102 Plastics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2625],"tags":[1659,3566,1606,5746,1197,37,3567,3568,1142,3483,5772,3564,3565,67,1015,143],"class_list":["post-9104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-richard-alice","tag-bowling","tag-drinking-fountain","tag-eyeglasses","tag-film","tag-injuries","tag-letter-writing","tag-mildew","tag-mold","tag-movies","tag-plastic-surgery","tag-richard-alice","tag-the-lost-weekend","tag-thirsty","tag-war","tag-water","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oc9-2mQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9104\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spitballarmy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}