81 years ago #OTD:
"I haven't been able to write for a couple days although I have received 5 or 6 letters from you recently. I wish I could explain to you why I haven't been able to write but, the work we are doing has called for quite a bit of moving around...
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I am afraid what you have dreaded to hear is about to take place honey, but please don't worry too much and please write me often. The mail isn't coming in so good but your letters will catch up with me sometime soon...
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So the shop paid you for all the time you were here with me. Boy! That's the kind of people to work for. Give them all my regards."
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Sometime soon your letters should catch up with me. Am looking for one today in fact, so perhaps I can do better tomorrow."
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No one knows anything anyhow so I couldn't even give you an idea of our destination. You know - just the usual talk and the more you hear the more confused you get."
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Well, Sweetheart, I'll try to get my daily letter off as usual wherever we are tomorrow...
I must close now Darling and get this stationery and stuff packed away, so til later, Bye now - I love you sweetheart and will miss you so much but we must both be good soldiers."
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I went to Baltimore with one of the fellows last night. We had a few drinks and gave the town the last 'once over.'"
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82 years ago #OTD:
"Gee! It seems funny to be writing letters to you again. I intended to write last night but, true to form, the situation was screwed up and we went out to the infiltration course and crawled under machine gun fire again. Some life!..
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82 years ago #OTD:
"Wasn't that phone call a mess? Gee! I don't know what to do. You see, there is a chance that I may go on a shipment tonight but if I don't have to go I'll probably be here for the weekend and I would like to see you so much...
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82 years ago #OTD:
"I went out with a shipping order last night but not far as everyone seemed to be present and in good health. Lord only knows when I will get out of here. We don't have anything much to do so you can see how boring it can get - just sitting or laying around.
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I'll have to get used to using a pencil anyhow because ink may not be available where I may wind up. Encouraging fellow ain't I? We may as well prepare for the worst anyhow."
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82 years ago today:
"I thought I would be on my way to somewhere else by now, but no orders have come down so maybe it will be tomorrow. It sure gets tiresome just sitting here waiting but not knowing where or when you are going."
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82 years ago #OTD:
"Well, I am now on 'the alert' or something. That is I am all ready to ship out anytime. There is a group which will probably ship out tomorrow and I am an alternate on that shipment which means I may go with them and I may not...
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82 years ago #OTD:
"It's been raining all day so I spent the biggest part of it in theaters and bars in Baltimore - that's about all the sights there are to see in Baltimore anyhow. Seen a swell show - 'The Uninvited' - don't miss it...
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Im telling you this because it's the worst thing we can expect and it may as well come now or later. You must take it the best you can - (like a good soldier.)"
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82 years ago #OTD:
"Please excuse any errors because I am not quite myself tonight...I got a weekend pass to Baltimore today so I left camp about 5 PM and had a big steak dinner in Baltimore....
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82 years ago #OTD:
"Went to the eye clinic this morning and they say I don't need glasses and that is OK with me because I never could get quite used to wearing them all the time. We went on a 14 mile march this afternoon and watched them fire a artillery problem (?)...
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82 years ago #OTD:
"We didn't have anything to do today but will probably get down to business again tomorrow. I have to go over to the clinic tomorrow and have my eyes and glasses checked. I'll probably get GI Glasses this time....
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82 years ago #OTD - Ft. Meade, MD
"Well I got here, and on time too I guess - but close to noon. If I had waited for the next train, I wouldn't have made it. Miss me Honey? Gee I wish I was home!
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82 years ago #OTD:
"Just got my shipping orders this afternoon so thought I had better drop you a line...I leave here 4:00 Saturday morning the 26th by train...I have to be at Fort Meade, MD on the 7th of March."
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82 years ago #OTD - Camp Blanding, FL:
"Received two letters today so we are getting back to normal again I guess, that's good too. We had a gunners test with the 81 mm mortar in school today. My ability rather amazed me - I think I made a good grade."
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"I got a letter today and, Boy! Was I glad to hear from you... tonight I am feeling like a new man... I am sort of glad it turned out this way too because if I got a furlough, it would be the only one I would get before going overseas..."
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82 years ago #OTD - #CampBlanding, FL
"One of the fellows going to school with me from my Company was a big league baseball player. His name is Ardys Keller and he was a catcher for the 'St. Louis Browns.' You meet all kinds of people in a place like this."
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If I stay here you can be pretty sure I won't be home on furlough for a couple months... The only reason these other fellows got their furlough is because they are going overseas"
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The Furlough is off for the time being and I can't say how long it will be before I get one... Here's the good part of it - I won't be overseas in combat...."
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(I organized the unread letters by year and started with 1943 which wasn't too exciting. Forgot about 1944)
81 years ago yesterday (Ooops)
"Remember the day I found your diary and you chased me all around the yard in your pajamas trying to get it back? Those were the days!"
(This was before I joined BlueSky and started posting them here)
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I received 36 letters and a Christmas Box in today's mail... The oldest letter was the one you wrote when you first received my letter telling you I was wounded. It was in a fire somewhere and was all scorched and smoked up."
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I don't have any letters or anything after this date, but I will share letters I have from previous years on the anniversaries of the dates they were written.
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That means of course, that it will take longer to make the voyage - but at least we'll be sailing - that's something!
...I think this will be my last letter from over here. From what I hear, I may beat this home...
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Now for the shipping news... At least, to date, no changes have been made, except that the 115th will not sail on the SS John Ericsson but will board Liberty ships instead. I don't care about that - just any boat suits me - even if it's only a row boat....
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