Show FROM SOLDIER I 1 SERVICE fort sill okla jan 1 vea folks I 1 received your letter today it certainly makes me leel feel good to hear from home I 1 am in perfect health hut but it if 1 I keep getting cake and bandt I 1 m I 1 ill I 1 be liable to be side sick as I 1 have received eleven cloven boxes with eata sn in tham since dec 20 1 I have just about got ot out of the habit of eating chow chew alile WI in omaha I 1 made imade a lot of fine friends and they ip remembered me this crit cri C t mas we e have had muster I 1 don t suppose ou know what that is bli alt the first thing we do is scrub lud laid clean windows shine shoes and leggings straighten every thing up so lo that there a speck ot of dus anywhere our bunk must be ma up without a wrinkle our field equipment must be clean and arran arranged qed in uniform manner wp we must lir 9 a clean shave clean clothes on oil and clean hands then we fall outside ond and the major inspects us ua and if by SOTS hook or crock you forget to button it a button on the pocket ot of your blouio or the back of your shoe shining well a couple of 0 weeks of kitchen police would be your pastime you used to tell me I 1 was slouchy tut but I 1 am not any more because my preparation for muster has been faultless tor for five or six months alk tf it I 1 were a girl I 1 marry a fellow unless lie he had soldiered A soldier knows enough about cooking to do his hi own and that ot of a family if necessary lie ho knows enough about sweeping and scrubbing top to keep a house bouso as clean as a pin he has to walk guard fuenty t enty faur fc ur hours bourg out ot of every nisei week and and so is accustoms accustomed d fo to walking back and forth at night and a springfield eld woul ni be bc tut little different ferent t than au an infant except the noise he Is used to being bossed around and he will always do i what hat lie he Is told I 1 receded the sweater and certainly appreciate it although it has been such euch warm warin weather lately that I 1 even wearn weara blouse I 1 cant hardly realize that it la is winter with love to all I 1 remain your soldier boy LEONARD CALL |