| dc.description.transcription | 5-12-43Dear Folks,I hope the postman doesn’t wake you up at 6:00 to give you this, because it isn’t as important as that telephone call was. You see I am not quite as homesick now as I was then. It was that dad-gummed letter that all of you wrote. Now I am going to pay you a compliment? That is the second time that I have been homesick since I have been in the Army. The other time was after a letter from Rollen Hawpe. None of that old talk about the preacher trying to count me as being present, Papa out setting out his peppers, all of the great food that you had to eat, my being the subject of conversation at the dinner table, dainty Maxine tripping up to get the flowers, Ruth and Iris talking about their boy friends, and a bunch of other things helped to make me feel any better at the time. So please refrain from writing sentimental letters on sentimental days unless you want little Jobie to turn up A.W.O.L. at good ole P.U. and wind up in Cow Town. I might add at this point I am glad that my little sister got homesick, brokeor some such. I don’t know which one it was but whichen it was I’m glad that it happened. I mentioned over the telephone that we aren’t allowed to have cameras so it might be quite a while before I can get any pictures here. I am letting one of the girlsthat lives here keep it for me. We have open post all day next Sunday so perhaps I can take some pictures then. I have already taken three of myself here on the campus. But we had already changed into our summer uniforms so I don’t look like a soldier, more like a member of the Tex. Def. Guard. Phone Joe Mul and ask him if he got my discharge papers. If he did keep them for me. I might need them. Ruth, isn’t it about time for you to see about my annual. I don’t want to let them cheat me out of anything. And Mama, I wasn’t really worried about whether you would find that grade book or not. Mama I got that chocolet cake and it waswonderful. Sometimes I wish that you couldn’t cook so good. It goes so fast. Out of paper so I’ll quit,All of my love,Joe | |
