Dear Ma and Pa:
I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and
Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for
old man Minch by a mile.
Tell them to join up quick before maybe all of
the places are filled.
I was restless at first because you got to stay
in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but am getting so I like
to sleep late.
Tell Walt and Elmer all you do before breakfast
is smooth your cot and shine some things. No hogs to
slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split,
fire to lay. Men got to shave but it is not so
bad, there's warm water.
Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit
juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc, but kind of weak on
chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and
other regular food, but tell Walt and Elmer you can
always sit by the two city boys that live on coffee.
Their food plus yours holds you till noon when you get
fed again.
It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.
We go on "route marches", which the platoon sergeant
says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home.
Then the city guys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The country is nice but awful flat.
The sergeant is like a school teacher. He nags a lot.
The Capt. is like the school board. Majors and
colonels just ride around and frown. They don't
bother you none.
This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing.
I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know
why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk
head and don't move, and it ain't shooting at you like
the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie
there all comfortable and hit it You don't even load
your own cartridges. They come in boxes.
Then we have what they call hand-to hand combat
training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have
to be real careful though, they break real easy. It
ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home.
I'm about the best they got in this except for that
Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake . I only beat him
once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm
only 5'6" and 130 pounds, and he's 6'8" and weighs near
300 pounds dry.
Be sure to tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join
before other fellers get onto this setup and come
stampeding in.
Your loving daughter,
Gail.
2006-11-07
08:17:37
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