March 18, 1945
Dear Sisters:
I just got
back from church it was a rather disjointed session. For one thing they had a guest speaker and he
had to catch a train and had to cut his sermon short. What there was of it was good. Then he got a chaplain to come up and he had
nothing prepared. All in all it wasn’t
very good.
We have
been very busy. At the field they are
flying plenty late. On the line they are
going back on 3 shifts. I surely hope
that we don’t go back on that, for it surely isn’t very nice. We had a very windy dark day here. It surely looked like it was going to rain,
but so far nothing has appeared from above.
We didn’t do anything today but be lazy and listen to the radio. There were the same good programs on. The Army hour was very good today.
Irma I got
the film, thanks a million for it. Also
thanks to you all for the Red Cross I have.
But please tell me what it is, for I don’t get the idea of it. I guess it is a problem to collect for so
many different things. I really don’t
envy you a bit.
Yes we can
get potatoes out here again but no pork at all and we’re hungry for hog
meat. No, farmers do not come around out
here. Most of the stuff they raise goes
to the cannery so they really don’t have anything to sell. Most of the truck stuff is shipped in here.
That George
B. was the youngest one of the boys wasn’t he?
It has been getting light out here quite early also Mildred, but the twilight
is the really pretty thing. The miners
give me a pain in the ass it’s no more dangerous than any other job. They are just a bunch of greedy men who have
the wrong leader. They surely look and
holler like hell if all the GI’s went on strike for a little more than 50 a
month. If they think their job is
dangerous they should have a GI’s job.
Maybe they’d really see some danger.
If they’d go on strike they should all be put in the Army and left to
work for a month for 50 a month than take 3 hours [for it] and 2 hours a week
military training. Then before they can
go anywhere go and get a pass and then be told what time to be in bed. Some of those morons would really have there
eyes opened plenty. Enough said.
Billy T.
really must have a bad leg if he had so many operations. It’s about time the Red Cross got wise to the
F. He surely has pulled it plenty and it
is jerks like him that makes it bad for fellows who really must get home. No I haven’t made a pie yet. I can’t find any ready mixed pie crust.
I surely
hope they soon get it over with in
So
Long
Love
John