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dc.creatorGreen, Smith Lowry
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-22T19:39:10Z
dc.date.available2024-10-22T19:39:10Z
dc.date.issued1939-07-12
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/66456
dc.descriptionLetter from Smith Green to his grandparents, William and Mary Green, giving updates.
dc.format.medium6.5x10 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 to Grandma & Grandpa 1939-41, 1945-46 (not POW) folder, Item 008
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 Ft. Sam Houston, Texas July 12, 1939 Dear Grandman and Grandpa, I guess you think that I'm either dead or have forgotten all about you, but I'm neither. I should have written long ago but I just kept putting it off. Sometimes it seems that I couldn't write if I had to. I'm feeling fine, as usual, and hope you both are in the best of health. I left Ft. Benning on the twelfth of June and turned in for duty here on the fifteenth. Since then I've been busy straightening up my equipment and getting adjusted again. Not to mention the frequent trips to Camp Bullis on the problems of the new division test. The last ten days at Ft. Benning were rather hectic ones. I may have told you already, but we were in tents and it was pretty warm. I was unlucky enough to get a night shift every night on a sqitchboard, sometimes for eighteen hours at a stretch. There was no opportunity at all to sleep at night, and except for a few hours in the morning, it was too hot in the 2 day time. After the maneuvers were over, we made redord time in taking down the wire lines. However, when it was all in, we were so exhausted we could hardly move. We were compensated, though, by being relieved to go home that much earlier. I was lucky enough to make the highest grades of teh school. If they had a valedictorian, I would have been it, for once in my life. I made 8 A's and 1 B for a general average of Superior, which is tops. I expect to be home around August 1; if nothing happens, I know I will. Its impossible to get a furlough this fall because of the maneuvers, so I did the next best thing. I put in for assignment to the Phillipine Islands, with a 90 day delay en route. In that way, I can stay with you all for a while during the summer months, then go to San Francisco, port of embarkation, and visit with Virginia, Doris, and DAvid for a month or so. I've been putting it off much to long already. I've been wanting to see them for years, but a soldier hardly makes enough money to make a round trip that far. This way it will be easy. And the trip is just for 2 years. My company commander 3 is very set against my going and disapproved of my application. However, it has to go to WAshington, D.C. for the final word and there is a good chance that higher authorities will approve of it in spire o f him. I certainly hope that it goes through. I've never been home during the summer months before. Besides it seems that I can never get off but about every 2 years anyhow. Doris has been in Utah and Wyoming visiting with her husbands folks for the past five weeks. Little Doris is a great big girl now, trying to walk and talk, or so says Virginia. She said she hoped hers would be as good looking. Virginia wanted a girl, but Claude, David and I have our hearts set on a boy, so she said it would have to be a boy. It will be born in October, I think. I want to be there if I can. I wrote a letter to Beatrice several weeks ago but have received no reply as yet. I suppose that she and hubby an child or getting along fine. 4 I think you did the right thing when you sold the farms. I'm sure they were depreciating in value every year and were fast becoming liabilities. I suppose Ray is still on them? Wonder where he will go next year? When and if I come home next month, I will have to visit him because it may be a long time before I see him again. I wrote him the last letter but never got a reply. Well, tell all the folks hello for me. Tell them I hope to be there next month. I'll write you a few days before I come. It has been awfully hot here of late, but is raining now. Had to use a blanket last night, which is surprisingly cool for July here. Well, I can't think of a thing to write about. Take good care of yourself and write soon with all the news. Lot and Los of love Smith. S. Green 2nd Tank Co. Ft. Sam Houston TExas Mr. W.M. Green Box 426 Broken Bow, Oklahoma


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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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