Jan. 10, 1944
Dearest Gram,
I am deeply sorry to hear that you have not recovered yet and hope by the time
I will see you that you will be up and around in good shape. I received your
fist letter today and knew that you must have had a very good reason for not
writing any sooner because I know how you are very good at writing letters.
This week we have been having out X(10th)
Corps Tests and our final test was Saturday morning at 4 o’clock in the
morning to 10:30 AM. Ike were complimented on
our problem that morning by the General Harry J. Collins himself. Ike had been
running our test out in the woods with three inches of snow on the ground when
he came out and said our squad was the best he had seen in action and that we
had the guts and ambition and wanted us men to go through maneuvers and battle
together. My outfit is now in the 2nd army instead of the 3rd
which means that we will go across almost anytime after furloughs. I graduated
from
Gee Gram, I miss you and dad a lot. Just the night before last I dreamed that
we were together again and that we had invited uncle Will and Aunt Nettie over
for dinner and when we started to eat and you wouldn’t eat because you were
afraid the water pipes would freeze over to the apartment. It was a crazy
dream. Gram and I got the underwater and it came just in time. My Brother and I
had a wonderful time together. We went to
Mrs. Cole has her father staying with her. He is very old genl. and reminds me
very much of Pop
You probably wonder why I sent you the telegram with Christmas greeting in
Spanish. Well, it was like this. They won’t let you send just a Christmas or
holiday greeting alone. You must have a message, so I fooled them and sent the
Please tell dad to write. His letters are swell but I
don’t tell him so because he has just been writing me Telegramitas.
It is getting late so I will close. Tell dad I will write to him tomorrow.
Lots of love X
Mike