| dc.description.transcription | 8-27-45The address is: Lt. Joseph W. Hays 0-2015409 556 A.A.F. B.U. Long Beach, Calif.Dear Folks,Again, I’m writing while trying to get a long distance call through. For fear you won’t get much out of the call since all the lines sound like I have a poor connection even when I’m calling the operator I’ll start at leaving Sioux Falls and bring you up to date.We didn’t fly out here as you gathered from my card that I wrote from El Paso. We came by day coach all the way and it was one hell ofa trip. We were crowded four to a seat so I slept or that is, spentthe nights, three of them, on the floor in the kitchen car. The whole shipment was officers so we had to do our own K.P. etc., and I must admit morale didn’t run too high. So far as I know, no one died on the trip and only four got sick enough to be takenoff of my coach and put in hospitals en route. Yours truly made it just fine.No one from my crew came with me but I am running around with a kid by the name of Jim Vaden. He went all theway through training with Johnny and I knew him in Tucson. I ran into him again in Sioux Falls. He has an aunt, very well to do incidentally, that lives in Los Angeles. We spend Sat. night and Sunday with her and her husband and had one swell time. It wasjust like a weekend party in the movies except that they didn’t have a private swimming pool. I sure hope I don’t wear my welcome out there any time soon. From the looks of things I won’t have a chance to as we are going to be busyaround here. There is absolutely nothing for us to do except wait for our discharges but the C.O. of this field says that we are still getting army pay and that we are going to be kept busy 10 hours a day even if we aren’t doing anything but going to worthless ground school, now that the war is over, and taking P.T. I spent all of today processing and have two more days of that to look forward to then my P.T. and ground school starts. It would take a miracle to get me out of the army in time to go to school this fall so for a while I was thinking about staying in the army until mid term or even till next fall. I could get into A.T.C., build up my flying time, and make a nice little wad of money. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I get out, until school starts, and there are other good reasons why I should stay in for a while, but every time I get to seriously thinking about it something like that train ride, or standing in line all day processing, and getting nothing done, orbeing told to go to school all day whether there is anything worthwhile to teach me or not comes up. Then I decide again to get out at the earliest opportunity. I may change my mind again but right now I would get out if I could, if there weren’t any such thing as school, and I were going to starve to death within a week after getting out.__________.___________.___________._____________._____________.______________.__________Right here is where I got my call in. I know I’m not going to stay in the army now.__________.___________.___________._____________._____________.______________.__________ | |
