Monday Evening
Dear Mom + Dad,
Your letter of Thanksgiving Day arrived today and I was glad to hear from you. The mail is sure messed up. You said mother wrote me on Tuesday and I never received that letter. It will probably come rolling in about two weeks from now. I was getting slightly agitated as I wasn’t hearing from you regularly but now I know the reason why. I imagine from now on it will come in. I hope.
Yes Bobby D broke his nose playing touch football and I’m sorry to hear he had an operation. Will you find out Mrs. Dever’s address from me so I can write to her? Also see if you find out any dope on Jimmy. I’ve heard he is overseas in Africa but I have nothing definite on it. I know he’s across somewhere but I have the slightest idea where.
Well I have what they call an hour of additional instruction to do tonight through no fault of mine. We have a daily inspection of our barracks and the lieutenant didn’t like ours. As a consequence the entire barracks have to work the ramp. Well since I wrote that last sentence I have completed my tour on the ramp. There were two barracks out there for the same reason and the place was really crowded. I use to be in a boy scout outfit now I’m in a glorified military academy. That’s the army through plenty of bad mixed in with the good. It really wasn’t too bad. We have a cadet officer who definitely is a rat and tonight really proved it. His is in our barracks and he rode us tonight. However, he will be taken down a peg or tow as there are too many G.I. soldiers here to stand for it. There are ways of taking care of men like him and the G.I. boys know how to do it within regulations. We don’t have to take what he was handing out as there is a limit to everything.
As you know there is now chance of my getting a furlough unless unforeseen events develop. I’d like to get a week around Xmas as I could fly home but I doubt that very much. We be lucky to get Xmas off. That’s all for now.
Love
Bob
Bob
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