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Show ffhl.Phillipr W THE PAPERS OF PRIVATE PURKEY Dear Ma and Pop: Well, it has now been almost two years since I sa;d "No" to anybody. any-body. It is an unknown word in the army, in fact this is one place where a man can't even say, "I'll think it over." I know this will be hard for you to believe on account of when I was home it was so hard for you to get me to do anything. I got to thinking last night about famous words and expreshuns that I don't use or hear HI no more and I made up a list. Here it is: "Wait a while." "Do it yourself; can't you see I'm busy?" "Take these eees back and cook them over." "You can't talk to me like that." "Either you change the hours or I quit." "Don't wake me up before noon." "I haven't got time just now." "Can't it go till later on?" "You know I can't eat meat rare like this." "Tell the tailor to have those two sports suits back this afternoon." "Where's that new blue silk shirt of mine?" :: "I won't be in to- : morrow; I'm going to the ball game." "You know I can't do any heavy lifting." "Let's take a bus; I hate walking." walk-ing." "Either I get more money or I'll go some place else." "I know I was up late last night but look at all the time I've got to sleep today." "I don't want any trouble with anybody." (Remember that one?) "I'm checking out and, going to the shore for a few days rest." "This coffee is awful and tell the cook I said so." "I'll take another portion." "It's too hot; I'm quitting early today." "Yeah. I heard you but I'm too tired." "It's two blocks away and yet you want me to go back to the drugstore for you! You must think I'm a horse." "This is soup. I ordered clam chowder." "They can't do this to me." "I wouldn't mind doing it if I had an auto." "Send this suit back; it's a little loose in spots." "I want a room all to myself." "I don't mind being be-ing up late; I can sleep as late as I like tomorrow." "If it's so important impor-tant do' it yourself." your-self." "That barber will never cut my hair again." Well, ma and dad, that's just a few and I can think of plenty more things that now are a dead language to me. But it is all for the best. If I ever get back to civilyun life I will be a new man. I will never refuse you anything and what a pleasure it wood be to be home now and not be asked to do nothing except ex-cept tend the furnace, move the piano, help take down the porch screens, mow the lawn or run down to Feeglebaum's deli-catessin deli-catessin store any time you asked me to. I hope you are both fine. I am in the pink and I feel so good I may open a second front in person unassisted un-assisted any day now. Ask Nellie Busby to write me. All my love, I Oscar. Transportation Commissioner Eastman urges people to carry only one bag on railroad trains. And not those big ones, please. The trains are crowded with big bags going places with small people. "I'll insist on one thing' if drafted: that I'll be a soldier and no more, and that I will not be required to write. I have been the best propagandist propa-gandist this country ever had." William Saroyan as quoted by the Herald Tribune. Buy War Bonds "WANTED To swap wine press, fruit crusher, large funnel, nine wine barrels and a brass bird cage for power wood-working tools or other good tools. 1952 Yankee." Yankee Magazine. Tho complete repudiation of the Bohemian life. A man who would steal gas ration ra-tion books would steal the supplemental supple-mental gas application from a widow wid-ow and her child, says Elmer Twilchcll. |