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 Germany and if they keep plastering Japan with 29’s and carrier planes maybe they can bring those [Japanese] to their knees.  We are both O.K.  I hope your colds are cleared up by now.  Well I’m out of news so I’ll sign off for this time.

                                    So Long

                                            Love

                                                John