Sept 29, 1943
6:30PM
Dear Folks,
I am shipping tomorrow! I won’t write much but I wanted you to know the news. You can tell Grandpa Carver + Aunt Mary. I will let you know where I am going whenever I find out and am allowed to.
I might get ASTP because several of the bunch going took that test.
I will send this letter from the recreation hall and maybe it won’t be held up since it won’t go through our company mailroom. I feel better already even though I hauled rocks in a wheel barrow today. I got my social security card at noon.
With love,
Pvt. D.V.T.
I felt all day that this would be my last here.