Show pa phillipa Philli pr S asp THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY dear ma well I 1 have done a lot of ki kidding and squawking in my letters but but I 1 I 1 gess that is all over now after what them double crossing japs did there is no longer no funny side to this training and all I 1 want to do is get a crack at them all the boys feel the same way up to the time they heard about them japs stabbing uncle sam in the back under a flag of truce I 1 gess they all felt the same as me that the war was too tar far away to bother much and that this army training was a pain in the neck but it woke us au all up like no bugle ever did I 1 kind of felt that nobody wood ever tackle this country on account of we got two big oceans to depend on and all that and I 1 gess I 1 never sweated in a man without saying to myself this is the bunk as hitler wood be crazy to get more trouble on his hands I 1 never thought that japan would be even crazier I 1 hated the hikes I 1 hated the drills and and I 1 could not bathe a new crop of corns without burning up inside but all of a sudden I 1 feel different even my bunions seem patriotic now 0 0 0 its the same way all through my outfit jeeps who have been squawking eight hours a day look like they become fighting men over night they know it is not all a lot of foolishness no more and any boy in camp will 11 attack a tank single handed now it if you just tell him there is a japanese doll inside As for me personally ma I 1 got a clear picture of what the country is up against for the first time and I 1 wonder no now 4 that I 1 did not get the right slant long before this I 1 gess it was just because I 1 got snatched so sudden from all the comforts of civiluk life that I 1 see straight I 1 was soar over giving up a box spring mattress a personal alarm clock and the right to do what I 1 pleased but emperor dotsy togo 0 or r whatever you call him woke me up like nob odys business I 1 am so soar now that I 1 am sorry I 1 ever applauded japanese tightrope walkers this w war ar ha has all of a sudden become a great exciting sh show ma it dont seem just like a optical optical allusion no more all the tanks dont seem like they was just a few things being demonstrated by a auto salesman my rifle witch has just seemed something I 1 wood like to have carried for me by a caddy has all of a sudden become my its real and human and my uniform even when it is wet and wrinkled now looks like the grandest uniform anybody could ever climb into what has come over me I 1 dont know for sure but I 1 credit the with an assist I 1 gess you will have to forget about me being home for christmas but I 1 know what kind of a mother you are and I 1 gess you feel just like I 1 do about what has happened I 1 have done a lot of wise cracking about being leased or lent but I 1 dont care where they use me now so long as it is where I 1 can take a sock at the worlds worst enemies of today the double talk nations witch jab a knife in your kidney while asking what you want for christmas well I 1 must close now do not worry everything will come out all right with the old stars and stripes on top your loving son oscar P S I 1 pop is trying to get et into the army again now I 1 tell I 1 ell him to forget it and stay home and look out for yov you as I 1 will do enough fighting for all three of us THOUGHT ON FOOD it is the sad unlucky fate of some to have a diet each time they hear a friends lost weight they ask him how and try it and yet however fond and fair their hopes at the beginning they almost always find that more thinned against than thinning richard armour a 0 remember back before social security when people thought the way to be sure of a good living in their old age was to raise a lot of grateful sons and daughters asks merrill chilcote 0 0 0 DESERT SONG in cunningham said nazis running theres less of ham and more of cunning I 1 richard armour the time to anticipate a war these days Is when the peace conversations reach a height 0 0 up to pearl harbor said elmer twitchell today 1 I never thought orson welles famous broadcast would be topped in my lifetime 0 |