Show 0 0 04 0 r THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY dear ma well you will laff at this ma but the army has learned me how to make abed a bed if I 1 get out of this war safe and back in in c I 1 plain close clos e no matter how bad 11 the employment 4 situ ashun is 13 1 I can get a job ob as a A J making beds is one thing I 1 never thought I 1 would be a expert at but it is one of the first things you get instructed at in a draft camp I 1 never paid no attention all my life to bed making I 1 just got out in the morning and from all I 1 knew it wa was S all done but I 1 am now a first class bed maker and some nice girl could use me as a housekeeper 0 4 0 I 1 no this will surprise you more than anything tho mom when I 1 tell you I 1 am a grade A dishwasher they call this kitchen police detail but I 1 do not know where the police part comes in as I 1 never seen no cop doing dishes but they tell me in the army that they call any dirty work police work well anyhow I 1 put in a hole day washing dishes and if you ever ask me to help with the pots and pans her hereafter eatter and I 1 renews I 1 will becu it will be a compared to what washing dishes is up here you dont wash a plate at a time you wash em in bunches and you have to be a comber Jap aneze jugler kitchen canary and all around mop per er upper I 1 have got so good at it that at if I 1 had a race with a electric dish washing machine it would take a photo to pick the winner the breakage is not heavy which is a big disser as I 1 would like to bust more than I 1 do but the crock kery they use in the army is more like cement lawn furniture furnita re you can drop a coffee cup on the floor and it will bounce rites rite back and hit you on the jaw I 1 d topped dropped a saucer yesterday and it made a hole in the floor big enough for two men to go threw I 1 never new there was so many dishes in the army and believe me I 1 never seen no physical training that hardens muscles like just lifting army china I 1 know a private who dislocated two ribs ming lifting a saucer the sergeant says the dishes are just for eating but he cant fool me it if war comes they will be used for throwing 0 0 0 my hand and arms up to the rist is all pink and puffy from being in the hot water so many hours at a stretch and when I 1 cant sleep now I 1 dont count sheep I 1 just count dirty dishes I 1 had a terrible dream last night I 1 dreamed I 1 had to do aalthe all the p pans ans and broilers all over a second time ti me you know how the pans and broilers are au all stuck up after a big thanksgiving dinner at home ma well there is twice as much goo on tern em up here and I 1 think the skipper puts a coat of hard varnish over it to make it all the harder A 0 0 I 1 do not like it much as it does not seem to have much glammer and in all the stories I 1 read about war heroes I 1 never noticed a dish washer being mentioned the sergeant says napoleon started as a dish washer washing french hastery dishes witch is why they call him napoleon but he is is kidding I 1 gess AU all the boys is talking about the rumor that this training will last longer than a year maybe for two years but I 1 not mind it so mutch pervaded ded I 1 could go home winters as the life the last winter was so tuff even those finns would of been soar I 1 see washington says the report is strictly abalony but most ol of us has our fingers crost aecus the lease lend bill is passed and anybody kno knows ws that nobody who bor tows rows anything ever gives it back under a couple of years anyway rna ma do not worry as I 1 am still okay except for soar feet a bad hangnail and a little touch of new monnia but I 1 am so busy washing dishes that it takes my mind off my suffering 0 your loving son oscar GOTHAM GLIMPSES greenwich villa village 9 e where poets write rhymes of wagon wheels harpies hams and cuban heels times square where shills JIs yokels vie with touts and sirens hot dogs bars and grills 0 0 0 city hall park where typist tramp and new mellow bask near the shrine of fiorello |