Show 24 ph imp r tiie PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY dear ma everything Is about the same here in camp especially the weather which has been of two kinds all winter bad and and anybody who gets drafted this spring instead of in midwinter like I 1 did Is getting a great brake my feet have ta taken ken so much abuse they are unconscious and dont beleve that stuff atuf about this being a machine war as I 1 h have never seen so much walking done in peace or war from my experience I 1 think I 1 have been drafted in a bunions derby nothing makes the boys so sore up hear as when they get a paper and read about all them strikes and walkouts wal kouts ats around the country every time I 1 here about those guys with nice warm lobs jobs who go home every night to home cooked chow and yet squawk about the hours and the pay it gives me a pain you know where beleve me if I 1 was out of the army and had a job where I 1 could quit every night and not galoot nobody I 1 wo would U id mow down anybody who tried to sell me the idea I 1 was not getting getling a square dele well I 1 am getting used to spending all my time in a uniform now but it is no cinch after being used to having three in different colors one with patched pockets and one with cuffs on the pants all my life gee ma it would feel swell to get into a white shirt striped necktie and sunday soot once in a while in the army you have to ware the asme so soot ot sunday you wore all w week eek I 1 can be transferred to a tank corpse it if I 1 want to but I 1 dont don t know whether I 1 would like it much the work looks too I 1 confining and w while hile I 1 would like to get into a serviss that would be easier on rny my feet a tank slat aint my idea of no pleasure kar A friend of mine was in the tanks and he be says it is like going to war in a sate safe A tank is like a taxi with no springs and with all the upholstering done by a scrap iron man I 1 guess I 1 would be safer from stray bullets in a tank but I 1 do not think I 1 will sign up unless I 1 thumb a ride and ses see tor for myself how it is before a soldier joins a tank corpse the least the government should do is give him a how is the defense defens program coming on back home I 1 see where some washington witnesses say the country is short ot of planes guns tanks and everything As the old gag goes this is a fine time to tell me heh bob ma I 1 wish the government wood turn the whole thing over to henry ford he is the father of quantity produce shun and the mother too I 1 guess all you have to give him Is a monkey rench a few nuts and a general idea what the war needs and he will turn it out so fast that uncle sam will not ot only have enough planes tanks and guns tor for 1941 and 1942 2 out but will be giving previews of the 1943 moddelle mod dells do not worry about me as my flew is a little better and I 1 am getting getling used to chilblains after all I 1 was lucky not to get send with h them boys to new fundling Fund lind love oscar APPEAL TO REASON driver driver spare that horn particularly when you tear fear eight seconds of delay or at the outside TENI italy seems to have developed to a high point the quick detachable general add similes as dull as ice hockey to a visitor from london LAMENT IN BAD RHYME 1 I do not know the reason but the tact fact is when hubby looks at me he talks of taxes R P money may be the root of all evil says R roelofs jr but it is still the main basis of a good defense SONG FROM THE SIDELINES im lost in admiration of virile folks like these who leap from snowy mountaintops mountain tops upon a pair of skis who skate with zest on icy ponds and have a tibia cracked B but ut ill just stand upon my feet I 1 like myself intact frances M miller 0 gene tunney Is now in service at pensacola speaking of defense nobody ever knew more about tt it than gene |