Show i Z ph I 1 WRITES WHITES AGAIN dear nia ma well aher I 1 first got c called lied in tile the draft I 1 was told no soldiers bo be sent seat to europe and that I 1 was just going to got get n training just in fit cose casl but everything I 1 hero here on oil tile the radio sounds like I 1 nin not up tip here hem just for kulshar kul shur I 1 see tile tho lease lease lond lend bill Is all but past and nil all I 1 nm still wondering is if I 1 go with the lease nobody in fit my divis litin seems seem to no what tile tho lease lend bill Is nil all about except that it Is for alt all aid to england short of war and tile tho boys say you can be a midget in fit tills this army and not be too short for war so I 1 gess gesa it if war comes there Is no way out for me mom I 1 nm still getting a lot of instruct shuns in fit how to galoot and from all the tha put on sil looting I 1 gess there are some people who are so old fash ened they think this war Is going to be as polite as the last one I 1 am gradually getting used to going around with a 0 gun at first this felt very tunny funny as all my life I 1 was beung up to avoid weapons the life here is pretty confining as I 1 sed ged before befaro and how I 1 like a week end auto trip to no place special it also bo be a big kick to be obel abel to talk back to people whenever I 1 wanted to like in si sivillar villan life up hero here if you talk back to any buddy you wind up in tho the gard house 0 s I 1 got for smoking cigarettes while marching the captin was very sore and sed tt it auz against the rules and he sed it was bad for my lungs also what made him soro sore was when I 1 asked him not to worry about my lungs but start worrying about my feet well mom now I 1 know why they went over my teeth so carefully in the draft test I 1 could not understand wily why the doctors made so much fuss about ab 4 my teeth but it is all clere now since I 1 got some of the beef the army uses in beet beef stew the cows they get it from must be hall half elephant ma I 1 wish mr juddson of the defense bored do something about getting sharper knifes tor for soldiers 0 it if this army alf life dont nt do nothing else for roe me mom it will maka me good coffee I 1 gess they use tobacco leaves for coffee in the army the boys say the cook dont know how to make coffee which 1 I gess has ben true all through the history of armies and navies and I 1 dont see why the U S dont have a secretary of coffee just like a secretary of war so a cup of java will taste like a cup ot of java and not like a hot brake smells I 1 still go got that chance to join a tank corpse like I 1 wrote you but dont worry as they are still using ice wagons for tanks and I 1 lo 10 look ok pretty going to war in an ice wagon 1 I ma well this is all for now so I 1 close with love oscar |