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Show LETTERS HEADQUARTERS, 2nd Engr. Combat Bn. APO 248, 30 May, 1953 . Sugar House Chamber of Commerce P.O. Box 73, Sugar Station, Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Sir: It was an unexpected surprise to receive three large packages from you and to note the sticker, "Kandy for Korea Kontest.' I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with the background back-ground of this contest, but it certainly cer-tainly fits in well with "Sugar Days." Sweets are quite scarce among the Korean people and of course the children love candy as seems to be a world-wide condition. We have some isolated villages not too far from our present location, and I plan to take several of the boxes down to them. The other, I think, could be used profitably by giving it to an orphanage. Apparently from the contents of these boxes, individual contributions contribu-tions were obtained. I sincerely hope that you will have some way of expressing our deep appreciation to all who participated in this project. Once again may I express our thanks for your thoughtfulness. I only wish that you could experience exper-ience the joy we received from being be-ing able to distribute the various goods that you send to us. God bless you for your brotherly love and hasten the day when peace may come to the world. Faithfuly yours, ROBERT E. PARSONS, Chaplain (1st Lt..) USA. Korea, June 18, 1953 Dear Sirs: I am writing in behalf of Chaplain Chap-lain Ben Mortensen to thank you ever so much for the candy. Chaplain Mortensen is one of the chaplains right on the front line. You wlil never know how much a package from the States means to the fellows up here. In the rear areas, the fellows get post exchange ex-change privilege, but here the fellows fel-lows just go without. We took the candy to the fellows fel-lows on outpost Harry. Maybe you have heard of it in' the last week. It has really been a hot spot. I am sure the fellows want to thank you, also. Sincerely yours, C. E. BROWN, Chaplain Asst. |