Show Letters From U Alums Editor's The following are from letters of former U students who are now stationed with the armed South Pacific At present 1 am out in the South Pacific I am stationed on a destroyer We remain in port all of the time serving destroyers as they come in from the We are in the harbor of one of those islands you hear so much about you Lamour and her type anyway these native girls are looking whiter We officers are very companionable and easy to get along The food is excellent and living quarters We have cabin boys who shine our shoes every clean our room and wake us Not I'm telling you Pm all for Ensign Dave buyer Marching everybody here is kept very much alive by We march to to to drills and every place like that and then we march to drill hall so we can practice how to and then we march back to our rooms after we have practiced how to Roger Hammond while stationed at Notre Dame university Somewhere in Australia This country believes in There is more meat per person than even could Also we get plenty of dairy such as ice cheese and fresh fruits are Remember way back when you used to get that long yellow fruit called We can have them three times a along with fresh pineapples passion Such is life in the This is late summer weather down There are plenty of beautiful inter eating trees with in There are some doves among er but so far have not seen a peace and probably won't for some At dusk each night the hordes of mosquitoes come Of Uncle Sam gives mosquito bars to put over our but when we crawl in the mosquitoes ride in at the same time or some work in flight and lift up one comer of the Captain T. S. Parmelee Navy Talk In the last few weeks I've studied and seen some of the equipment were using to win this I assure you our navy ia prepared to do a real job well and When civilians ordinarily talk about equipment they talk about the stuff that was modern and new a year That doesn't We've got some stuff that you wouldn't believe unless you That's why I'm I think the war is going to be over as soon as we were predicting last The other Sunday night in our vesper we learned that the admiralty had promised a victory In the Pacific in and I don't think it was given to us as a morale booster because at Columbia it doesn't matter what your morale you are there to learn to My private opinion Is that 1 won't be out of the navy for some time after the war because I'm going to reconstruct a changed Surely a job has been planned for Ensign Veigh Nielson |