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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:37:07Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:37:07Z
dc.date.issued1936-10-23
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66428
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green (October 23, 1936).
dc.format.medium5.25x6.5 paper
dc.relationSmith Lowry Green Collection (MS 179)
dc.rightsPrior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph
dc.sourceBox 002, Correspondence-Letters to grandparents (1936-1937) folder, Item 002
dc.subjectGreen, Smith L.
dc.subjectWorld War II
dc.subjectUnited States Army
dc.titleLetter from Smith Green to grandma and grandpa
dc.typeDocument
dc.description.transcription1 Camp Bullis, Texas October 23, 1936 Dear Grandma and Grandpa, As this is Friday afternoon and I don't have to study much, I will answer your letter that I received about ten days. It was fairly warm up until yesterday but it looks as if that is all over now. It is cold and rainy; very uncomfortable. We don't have a fire so we sit around in overcoats and some drape blankets over themselves. These hills are rather dreary looking riht now. We are certainly stepping 2 on it now in our classes. We are taking American History at the rate of two chapters a day. Some days we have as much as 50 pages a day in English Literature besides reading one of Shakespeares plays. The other classes are just as bad. Virginia said Madge and her husband were visting at home now. Her husband got about 60 days furlough and they went to China, Japan, Phillipines etc. before they came home. You remember, he is in the Navy and stationed at Guam. Virginia said Madge certainly was looking good. 3 I certianly was glad to hear that Broken Bow was winning all the games. I wish you would send me all the clippings you could about the games. And anything else about the old home town for that matter. You can tell MR. Coggins that the war is over and everybody is satisfied. The Blue army finally won so our country is saved. You could tell him that your grandson is a veteran of the war too. I will probably come home Christmas. We have exams the second and third of December and school doesn't start again until 4 January. I will try to come home for about three weeks. I hope I can anyway. You can cook all your fryers then. I'm glad grandpa is taking flu shots so he won't have the flu again this winter. And I hope Uncle Cad gets better. I have been writing to Florence for a hwile. She is getting along all right. If you can get hold of John's address let me know. I would like to hear from him. Tell everybody hello for me. Take good care of yourself and don't let grandpa and Uncle Cad go foolin' around in bad weather. Well, I must close, to get ready for inspection to-morrow. Tell Charley Walker hello. Smith S.L. Green West Point Prep School Camp Bullis, Texas c/o Ft. Sam Houston Texas Mr. W.M. Green Box #426 Broken Bow, Oklahoma Wright City 44 to 0 Vivian La 19-12


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    Smith L. Green fought in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. He was a prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945. He also fought in the Korean War. Green attended graduate school at Texas Christian University, graduating in 1961.

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