Show Our Boys In Service COMPLETES COURSE- Eldon E. Thompson recently graduated from a course in ammunition from the U. S. Army Ordnance Douglas Proving ELDON E. THOMPSON Eldon E. son of and Edmond F. recently received a graduation certificate from U. S. Army Ordnance Aberdeen Proving Maryland after completing an eight-week course in Thompson entered the armed service in May of this receiving his basic training at An interesting Jetter written by Eldon to his mother was brought to our with excerpts printed as Dear I'll try to toll you what Bud and I have been Last week we went to D. C. We went through the White It was a very extravagant It must have cost millions of dollars to build something like Its walls on the inside were made of silk cloth of each room having its own In the Blue room the the furniture furniture was covered with plush but it was of colonial everything was blue except the great massive chandeliers that hung from the They are made of nothing but They cost thousands of dollars alone some were almost six feet across and they hung down from the ceiling a good six feet was the same with the red room and the green it almost took my breath Some day if I can I'm going to bring you and dad to see all Tour National We went through the National Everything there The staircases were made of and the banisters were about a foot and a half wide of we went into a room that had marble statues of all the great men in American There was a statue of Brigham and at the base of it was the We went on a tour through a place where all the senators and representatives from each state meet in a conference with the president six with the reporters from all the big newspapers in the country sitting Bud and I walked to the top of the George Washington monument in D. C. It has an elevator going up the center and in the top you have a wonderful view of the We also saw the Jefferson monument Unknown Soldier Cemetery Wc went through the cemetery of unknown were graves as far as the eye could It was It made me rather sad to think that so many fellows had to die to defend our country in past We also saw the unknown soldier's A guard is posted there seven days a 24 hours a From there we went to Vernon where our first George lived and owned a great All the buildings on that estate have been restored and nearly all the original things put back as they were in the time of George Even the flower gardens are still kept There is acre upon acre of nothing but just as the history in school describe it We went into the home and saw the room and even the bed where he died- The books and all furnishings were just as they were when he was It was quite an Enjoy Fishing Bud and I have rented boats at times to go out on the We have done a lot of lobster and crab fishing this afternoon Bud and I graduated from ammunition Now we are being sent to a storage specialist If I graduate from course I'll be a specialist in this field and won't have to about packing and I are trying to get our high school I could go on but I had better so I can mail Write back With all my Your Eldon |