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Show Local Lad Receives Letter From Brother in Korea Editor's Note: The following interesting letter written by Pvt. Edward L. Schrandt, who Is serving serv-ing with an infantry regiment in Korea, was received recently by his little halfbrother. Conrad Bauer, Jr. Pvt. Schrandt is a son of Mrs. Conrad Bauer. Hi. Junior: I promised you that I would write you a letter so I am going to try tonight. I I guess that you are wondering what your old brother is doing so far from home. Well, I'm over here playing a game of cops and robbers. The only difference between be-tween the way we play it and the way you do is that we use really guns that make a real big bang when you pull the trigger. We're over here because the jeople back home don't like the way that the people we are fighting have been pushing other people around. So they sent me and a lot of other boys over here to try and make them stp. j I hope that Santa Claus brought you a lot of nice presents this year. I didn't get to see him this year to tell him what I wanted him to bring you, so I don't know whether he brought you anything from me or not, but 1 hope that next year I will be home for Christmas, then maybe may-be I'll get a chance to talk to him. The winter here is very cold. It really isn't any colder than it is back home, but when we get cold over here we don't have any nice warm house to go into and get warm. We just have an old tent, or a hole that has been j dug in the ground, to go into and most of the time we don't have any fire in them to make them warm. j I haven't seen any little boys over here your size. We have a ' few boys working for us, but they are bigger than you. They jwork for our bosses and help them keep house -so they call them house boys. I am now the mail-man for all the men in my company. When I get a lot of mail for them they like me, and when I don't they don't like me because they j like to hear from their folks at homjo. I have a little room all to myself and when they come in and ask for their letters I give them to them if they have any? Some boys get a lot of letters and some get a very few. Well Punkin. I don't know of anything else to tell you so I will say good-bye for now. Be good to Mother and Daddy and your little sister Sidney. I hope you are having a lot of fun with your playmates. Get Mama to help you write me a letter. I sure would like to hear from you. Your brother LEON |