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Show Parents Receive Reassuring Letter From Son In Hawaiian Islands Following many days of anxious waiting and virtual expectation that he was all right, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Fletcher of Preston received word through the mail Tuesday that their son. Max. was resting in a Honolulu hospital. His Idler was dated December 13. Max heads a clerical group in the personnel building in that island is-land cily and was a victim of the recent air raid. He wrote, in part: "The hospital kicked me out yesterday, after a bit. of persuasion, so you can see that I was not. too badly injured. As a matter of fact I don't think my burns will h ave any scars at all. naturally, censorship cen-sorship regulations prevent me from giving you all the details of the raid that took place here on ! Sunday. Let it suffice to say that I was injured by bomb blast while on a fire-fighting and ammunition-handling ammunition-handling party abord one of the ships present. "Most of my hair and eyebrows were burnt off, and I received second sec-ond and third degree Dums on my left forearm and less serious burns on my face, right forearm, back of neck and shoulders. A lot of territory ter-ritory that the doctors at first thought was burn, resulting in my being classified as a "serious" 1 patient, later turned out to be only powder blackening and required only an application of soap and water to remedy. "I was worried for awnne nwiut reports that the ship corryng my Christmas presents had been sunk. However, I understand she got through ... I can't give you any return address but if you send your letters to the address you were sending them to before my visit to the hospital you will not go at all wrong. "During the war I will be unable un-able to send mail to more than one relative, censorship regulations prescribe, so plea.se explain to my friends . . . Keep your idiin up and don't worry; lightening has missed me once and I'm staying in tbe same place. "Love, Max" |