Tuesday Evening, June 20, 1944
Hello Folks,
Well I certainly am living a great life this week. If the army was always like this it wouldn’t be half bad. Since there is no one here hardly we don’t have to stand reveille, retreat or anything. We just get up, go eat and go to work. Then after we get in at night we take a shower at our leisure, go down and eat and have the whole evening to ourselves.
If things work out as we have been told they will, our radio school should be over in the next few days. After that I’ll go back to work for sure I suppose. But I feel like that since the company is going over about the same stuff I have had anyway that I haven’t lost much, and maybe I have learned a little that will be useful some time.
As you can see, I all but ran out of my stationary that you sent me so I had to buy some of this stuff (“United States Army” imprint). I don’t know where you got that other stationery but I sure got a great kick out of using it. Someway it just suited me. But of course I don’t want you to send me any more right away because I have this to use up.
Since news is kind of short tonight I’ll tell you a little about what rumors say about our going on maneuvers. The general opinion seems to be that they will start sometime in August. It is also rumored that in September we might go to Louisiana for a little training there. But don’t take this too seriously – there are also rumors about going to North Carolina for maneuvers so there is no use believing anything. It does seem though that, unless we are shipped out in small groups instead of as a unit, we will be here for a while.
They got mail to us today and I got the letter you had written Friday. That was the first letter I had received since about Friday so I was glad to get it. I am getting all the mail but it goes out to the range and comes back here so it takes quite a while to get here.
I think those sun glasses got broken while laying around here instead of in the package. But I just stuck them in anyway. Just chuck them in the junk.
I’m anxious to hear about Daddy’s job and how Richard is coming with his.
This is sort of irregular, writing on two sides of one sheet and not on the other, but I just didn’t have enough to start another sheet.
Loads of love and good wishes, Donald