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Show PRIVATE PURREY IN LOVE AND WAR Dear Oscar This will have to be just a short note, my dear. I am trying to get into in in ii t h e Women's : : Army Auxiliary II iV " ! Corps and I got f f - crushed in the f A(V rusn- My right K Ty-Jiiy ed I can hardly I -frJ write T cannot bear to think of you in the service of your country without feeling that I should also do my bit in some way. It would be fine if I got assigned as-signed to duty somewhere near enough to see you often, as I miss you terribly. More later. All my love, Harriet Dear Harriet. Gee but I am ser-prised ser-prised about you and the WAAC and I don't know if I , , M. like it or not. liJfr?''T'Y''i is a fine thing for i5 J you to do I guess J... 'br- TP but it sort olfc ' ' rfVp) makes it look like ; -i' ' jrf:Jjjg you did not have 1 1 complete confi-dence confi-dence in me to win this war. I mean all your let-I let-I ters up to this time indercated, you was satisfied with the part I was doing and not that you thought you should get in and make sure everything every-thing went. .okay. And another thing, Harriet, is this. We are having enuff trouble trou-ble corresponding when only one of us is in the army and it wood be twice as confusing if we was both being switched around the globe. It is bad enuff when you ain't sure where I am but it wood be worse if you didn't know where you was neither and vicus versus. Now, Harriet, if you have made up your mind I serpose it is no sense arguing but all I hope is that you have thought it all over carefully first. I read in the paper that the women's army is to go on hikes and be trained ' a good deal like any army and I am awful worried about your feet. . I remember you never was much' good at long walks and I cannot bear the idea of you being out in the hot sun all day with your feet hurting. I warn you that army life is awful tough on dogs. It is bad enough on a man's dogs witch is tougher than a girl's dogs anyhow any-how and I do not think girl's feet is meant for such work. I warn you also to ask about guard duty and k.p. detail, Harriet. Har-riet. Find out if you got to do these things in. a woman's army. And if you have I am sure you wood want no part of it. Guard duty means you got to go out and walk between two posts sometimes ail night and you won't see nobody. You will hear the darndest noises and it is two creepy for any girl, espeshully one who is as nervus as you. I remember you are a little jumpy in the dark even when I am with you and so how wood you feel all alone, Harriet? Now k.p. duty is going around picking up all waste papers, butts, etc., all over the camp and peeling vegetables and it is no job for a girl who is not used to it and I remember re-member your mother always said you hated to help in the kitchen at all and did not exactly like house cleaning either. Of coarse I have not got the lowdown on the women's army and do not know what you wood half to do but I am just warning warn-ing you. a Sergeant Mooney says you wood have to do all that a man does In a army accept to fight. But I read in a paper that you wood be detailed most to light duties witch I hope is true on account of I have enuff to do worrying about what shape I am in without worrying about you, Harriet. So think it all over and as the old saying goes look before you become a rolling stone. Write me a long letter. Love, Oscar. All stores will sell war bonds and stamps and nothing else for 15 minutes on July 1. And there will, of course, be the shopper who win want a discount for cash and ask that they be sent. Another dimout victim is the actor who now has to sign up at so much per week and his name in the extinguished ex-tinguished lights. Private Purkey's old man when rebuked the other day for overeating explained: "I'm developing de-veloping my second front" It is Ima Dodo who tried to assist in the New York dimout by coming downtown at night and wearing dark glasses. |