Show aa ph THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE FURKEY dear ma well I 1 have done a lot of kidding and squawking squawk ng in my letters but I 1 gess that is all over now alter after what thern them timble double crossing japs did there Is no longel ne tunny funny side to this training and all I 1 want to do is get a crack at them all the boys feel eel the same way up to the t time ime they heard about them japs stubbing uncle sam in the back under a lag flog of truce I 1 gess they ull all felt the some same as me th diat at the war was too tar far away to bother much and that this army training was a pain in the neck B but it it ft woke us all up like no bugle ever did ahat I 1 kind of felt that nobody wood ev ever er tackle this country on account 0 of f w we e got two big oce oceans a ns to depend on and all that and I 1 gess I 1 never sweated in a man without say ing to myself this is the bunk as hitler wood be crazy to get more trouble on his hands I 1 never thought tha that t 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 sud den I 1 feel different even my bun ions seem patriotic now its the same way all through my outfit jeeps who have been aqua squa squawking kw eight hours a day look like they become fighting men over night they know it Is not all a lot of fool Ish ashness riess no more and any boy in camp will attack a tank single handed n now w if you just tell him there Is a japanese doll inside As tor for me personally lly ma I 1 got a clear picture of what the country Is up against for the first time and I 1 W wonder onder now that I 1 did not got get the right slant long before this I 1 gess it was just because I 1 got snatched so sudden from rom a all 11 the comforts of life that I 1 see straight I 1 W was as soar over giving up a box spring P ring mattress a personal alarm c clock ock and the right to do what I 1 p pleased ease d but emperor dotsy togo or 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 war has all of a sudden become a great exciting show ma it dont seem just like a optic optical al 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 haman and my anif uniform orm even when it is wet and wrinkled now looks like the grandest uniform anybody could ever climb into what has las 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 mo mother ther you are and I 1 gess you feel just like I 1 do about what has happ happened ened 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 I 1 it t is where I 1 can take a sock at the worlds worst enemies st f today the double talk nations witch jab a knife in your kidny kidney while asking what you want tor for christmas hirist mas clos 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 into the army again now te tell him to forget it and stay home and look fook out tor for you as I 1 will do enough lighting 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 thin ning richard A renumber remember back betoi c rial lal security when people thou the way to be sure of a good living in their old age was to raise a lot of grateful sons and daught daughters ersT asks merrill chilcote DESERT SONG in cunningham said nazis running theres less of ham and more ol of cunning richard armour the time to anticipate a wt war these days Is when nhen the peace conversations reach a height up to pearl harbor said elmer rw twitchell itchell today 1 I 1 never thought orson welles famous broadcast broad cail would be topped in my mj lifetime |