Dear Ma and Pa: Im well. Hope you are, too. Tell brother Walt and brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell em to join up quick fore all the spots are taken. I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 oclock, but Im getting so I like sleepin late. Tell Walt and Elmer all we do fore breakfast is smooth our cot and shine some stuff. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, or fire to lay. Men gotta shave but it aint so bad -- theres warm water. Breakfast is heavy on the trimmings (like fruit, juice, cereal, eggs, etc.) but weak on chops, taters, ham, steak, eggplant, pie and other regular food. But Walt and Elmer could always sit by some city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours oughta hold ya till noon when they feed ya again. We go on marches, which the sergeant says are to harden us, but I guess it aint my place to tell him no different. We only march about as far as our mailbox and then the city boys get sore feet and we all ride back in trucks. The sarge is like a schoolteacher--he nags a lot. Our captain is like the school principal. Majors and colonels just ride around and frown -- they dont bother us none. Tell Walt and Elmer I keep getting medals for shooting. I dont know why -- the bulls-eyes as big as a chipmunks head and it dont move. And it aint shootin at ya like them Higgett boys! All you gotta do is lie there all comfortable and fire. I dont even havta load my own cartridges -- they bring em out in boxes! We also have somethin they call hand-to-hand combat training where we wrestle them city boys. Im real careful cause they seem to break easy! Im about the best thats here, cept for Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake -- him I only beat once. Tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join up before everbody gets onto this deal and comes stampedin in. Your loving daughter, Mary Lou.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:19:05 +0000
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