Show sr PRIVATE PURKEY TURKEY WRITES IHS HIS GIRL FRIEND Dear Nellie Nellie- This is just to explain again that Iam Iam I Iam am awful sorry about getting mixed up and sending to President Roose Roose- Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt velt the love let let- letter letter letter ter I meant for you and sending you the protest witch I wrote for forthe forthe the President on account of a ap ap- appeal ap- ap appeal peal from Senator Wheeler and witch I wish I had of ignored in the tho first place Everybody has h s apolo apolo- apologized ap apologized lo- lo in this matter now including the Secretary of War and me Do not worry about what Mr Roosevelt will think about getting a aletter aletter letter from me addressed to t Dar Darling Darling Darling ling Nellie and signed with two rows of kisses as he will w know it was wasa wasI a error and even if he did not know this he wood be glad to get a aletter aletter aletter letter from anybody these days that just expressed and not a alot alot alot lot of complaining You say I never should of wrote no letter in response I to the Wheeler postcard and I ad ad- admit admit admit mit it but I was just in a writing mood that day e Well I wish I could see you often often- oftener er Nellie dear and if I ever get out of here I will marry you like I Isaid Isaid Isaid said but you can forget all that stuff about a little house in the country after all the walking I have I done all I want after this is a flat fiat right near a subway or a block from the office so I will never have to do much on foot again for the rest of my life You here a lot of talk about this being a mechanical war but you cant can't tell this to me with my feet in the shape they are in It is no more a mechanical war so far as I can see than the Revo Revo- Revolutionary Revolutionary War and my part in it is done just the same as at Valley Forge except at Valley Forge the grounds was harder and there was not so many to peel e What I wood give to be back in life where here people still get geta a vacation in Au Au- August August August gust If you had of told me last summer I wood spend this sum sum- summer summer summer mer without no vacation I wood of said you was crazy In a army you get twice as much work in the vacation season as any other time and if you aint come to a boil by noon you aint rated as in perfect shape If a jeep looks cool and dry all the officers get together and discuss whether to give him some new injections change his diet put him in the guardhouse or work him harder and the the last e always wins There has been a lot of rain lately and I do not know witch is the summer mud or spring and autumn mud but I gess summer mud is more exciting as there are more turtles and snakes in it Who Who- Whoever Whoever Whoever ever said there was few snakes in America was nuts I even found one in in n my bunk In some of the mud I have been doing in lately I wood not be to come up with a wild duck in my shoes I got everything else in em but my dogs is so numb they dont don't feel nothing no more I Well this is not much of a letter to you Nellie so I will close now just to say you are in my mind al al- always always al- al always ways even in the heat of mimic battle bat bat- battle battle tle and that even at night when I Iam Iam Iam am nursing my feet witch are so sore I ache all hll over I think of you dear With oceans of love Oscar P. P S. S S. e ASSISTS Some people think necessity is the mother of intervention a Hitler says he lie has the Rus Rus- Russians Russians Russians running around in circles In other words he lie thinks The l Goes Round and Round e eThe The Vichy regime has also come out against hunting in its accepted forms From now on all hunters must belong to one club controlled by the government Maybe this is a natural outcome of the widely cir cir- circulated circulated circulated report that a member of the Vichy government gov went hunting recently and encountered a rabbit Instead of putting up a fight against the bunny he entered into a collaborative collaborative agreement the tale runs Ima Dodo thinks the franking privilege has something to do with hot dogs e EVER NOTICE IT If It at cafes your meals you take This trouble you must bear No matter how you order steak You get it BURNT or RARE S Vichy has decided to fo prevent pharmacists from selling anything except medical supplies Can this mean that Petain is about to blame the the fall falI of France on drugstore sandwiches sand sand- sandwiches sandwIches and apothecary shop coffee What What America needs most is a committee to suppress committees |