| dc.description.transcription | 4-4-43Dear Folks,This will just be a quick line to let you know that I am home from the hospital. The rest did me good and helped me too. I hate to start school three days late but I think that I can do better because of the rest in spite of my lateness. Lets hope so anyway.I got my suitcase and everything that was in it today. The cookies surely weregood. Those loud shorts surely did look good and civilian. I only wish we could wear loud socks. I’ll write again in two or three days when I have something to tell about school. Love,Joe (student) Hays4-6-43Dear Folks,You’ve heard of people living on borrowed time haven’t you? Well I am writing on borrowed time.Tomorrow morning at 8:00 they are going to let me go. Oh, happy day!!! Then I can start to school, and start trying to “ketch up” as Jack Hunt used to say. I got a haircut today while I was waiting and doing nothing. Incidentally it was my second since I’ve been in the army. All I did today was get my neck clipped. The top is still too short to comb. I really got a good one the first time. I got one of those legendary barbers. The kind that Mr. Ard almost is. His subject today was John L. Lewis. It was his idea that that Mr. Lewis was bound to be a good man because so many of the big shots hated him. That was proof enough for him that he was a good man. This along with numerous hair pulls, and comments, by the barber, about how he liked the sound his new scissors made, gave me a very enjoyable haircut. These barbers in the hospital aren’t rushed, so they haven’t learned how to give “ye old G.I. zip” yet. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that during the course of my haircut he turned up the “Jeris” hair oil bottle, took a big mouth full, swished it between his teeth, and then spit it out. Quite a character. In order tohave something to write, I just weighed. I weighed 147 with just pajamas on. That is down a little bit from my peak but up ten pounds from what I weighed when I left home. This is the most I’ve ever written about nothing so I’ll quit.Love,Pvt. Joseph W. Hays 18,242 012 | |
