| dc.description.transcription | 5-16-45Dear Folks,I been sick! Too much play, and not enough work made Joe a weak boy. I couldn’t take it when I came back from pass so I got sick for a day and had the Dr. ground me. I had the sniffles, a sore throat and one degree of temperature but I’m fit as a fiddle now. Right now I’m sitting out in the nice sun absorbing some of it. There is a ball game going on now but I’ll wait until tomorrow before I exert myself. I told the boys my mother would whip me if she caught me playing ball the day after I had been sick.We were just told that our censorship regulations have not been relaxed. If that last letter I wrote got through don’t go spreading any of it around. If it didn’t, and I hope it didn’t, there wasn’t anything so important that won’t wait awhile. As for my coming home, there is nothing new, and there won’t be,until you hear the phone ring with the voice on the other end saying its me or until you get a wire from somewhere else saying I’m not coming home for awhile.I drew a blank on the mail yesterday but got four today. One from Amy, and Ruth, and two from Mama. I got a package day before yesterday with the can of fudge in it. What there was of it was fresh and very good. My peanuts and graham crackers ought to be here soon. Ruth, for your question about Tom. Yes, he is a 2ndnow. He got it about a week afterI did. John and Bob are 1sts, the R.O. and Eag. are T/Sgts., and the rest of the gunmen are S/Sgts. If this group stays over here for a while longer Tom and I will make 1stbut if it doesn’t we won’t. It doesn’t make any difference except that if I go home a 2ndand then come overseas again as a 2ndI’ll have my right to get 20% overseas pay. If I get 1stI’ll make about the same money I’m making now. All of which doesn’t matter just a whole lot to me. My permanent rank still and always will begin with a C, and I don’t mean Col. or Capt., or Cpl. I mean civilian.It’s time to go eat supper so I’ll bring this to a halt for this time.All my love,Joe | |
