March 23, 1944
Thursday Evening
Hello again,
I hope that I’ll be able to write a letter that I won’t be quite so ashamed of as I have been that last few. After I got back into the swing of it down at Benning, writing a letter wasn’t too hard but I’m almost out of the habit again.
As you can see, I’m not working tonight so now I’ve had two nights off since I’ve been working. The Lieutenant in charge of our section expects you to work pretty hard but he is pretty good about trying to get us time off. There were also several new men that came into the section today so that may help out some. I am secretly hoping that they’ll be running two shifts regularly before long. Just putting in a good day’s work (or night’s whichever it happens to be) and then getting off till the next day won’t be bad.
It’s really going to be good to start getting mail. I thought that I’d get a letter today but didn’t so I’ll be looking again tomorrow. I guess the longer I stay in the army the more I want to get back home. It seems so anyway. I think the sunshine this evening was what reminded me of home. It rained for about five days straight and then when the sun did finally come through it made memories of other beautiful early Fall evenings come to me. I’ll bet you know where I’ll be spending my time next year in September!
Well how’s school coming now that two weeks are almost over – half a month gone already? I suppose the assistant janitor is helping out with the sweeping again in the evening. I don’t believe that I ever heard how the roof deal turned out. But I suppose I’ll find out about that and a lot of other things too if my mail ever catches up with me.
I haven’t much more news; and since this is a pretty light letter, I’m going to send a couple of clippings from one of the papers down at Ft. Benning. They aren’t especially valuable but maybe you can stick them away someplace. I don’t know whether they ever finished the series or not. I don’t stay long enough to find out.
Well be good and take care of yourselves,
Your son and brother,
Donald