You will notice that the letters thus far are not dated. They only have the day of week that they are written (“Sunday afternoon”, “Tuesday Evening”, etc.). This has presented some challenges as you have to trace various themes in the letters such as “getting a pass into town”, or “still haven’t received the package”, or pick up on other clues, in order to get their sequence and date correct. This isn’t an issue with later letters (starting in April) as they have dates on them. These dates are written using different color ink than that used by Poops on the letters. Thus I assume these were put on by one of his parents as they collected and stored these letters (per Poops’ request in March 3rd letter).
With that said I have come to realize that I have incorrectly sequenced (i.e. dated) one of the letters. The letter I originally dated Sunday, March 8th should have been dated Sunday, March 15th. Thus I have made this correction in the blog. As this March 8th letter is full of gripes about the training routine, I felt I should re-labeled the subsequent March 12th letter (originally labeled “Gripes”) to “More Gripes”.
There is a set of letters, or miscellaneous extra pages to letters (e.g somehow page 2 got separated from page 1) which I filed in a folder labeled “Unknown”. These letters/pages have no dates on them and the stationary or letter titling doesn’t give a hint as to the location where it was written. Flipping through this folder again recently, I found one letter that I can now tell is from Tuesday, February 17th as Poops writes that he is going to Camp Barkeley in Texas.
So for today, you can read the March 8th and February 17th entries to read the most recent additions to this blog. I’m sure this will happened again as there are a fair amount of letters/pages that I’m not sure of their date. I’ll note when I insert letters in the sequence with a “Bloggers note” like this each time. Thanks!
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