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hanth6ownthisarefordpletethe Bed-Lerce nual 1 anersa — Lem-tiave Giveirds-ning the up-11c-, the r on theirfewandcrop.m-:om-andNo-.ngespro-andAp-iberstakehold1954.elec-nber,ringafcion.)therVolume Seventy-SixJim Mahoney Writes Letter From KoreaServi For F; to ; of lakes nak-s.copy re do nples crip-ti insular hope copyis E. go-;man iking y for field, other Some s old 1 at-. two .11 no : rec-nerly Anita sold odat-dpingh va-s can.than Leah over 3 still cafe busi-a fullBelow is a letter from Pvt. Jim Maloney, written from a rest area In Korea, after two weeks duty on the front lines:APO August 31, 1053 Dear Aunt Mary and Short,Well, here I am still alive and kicking, but don’t ever let anyone tell you war isn’t hell. The guy who first said that said a mouthful. They didn’t lose any time showing me that. Pour days after I hit Korea I was on the front line fighting and I do mean front lines. There wasn't a darn thing between me and the Chinks, only my rifle barrel and all the steel slugs I couldn’t throw at them, and believe me, that was a lot.I suppose by now you know (the folks have told • you) I came awful close to getting bumped off the second might I ■was up there. A mortar fell about 5 to 10 feet from our fox hole. It wounded one of my buddies a little bit in the left arm. A little higher, though, and it could have been his neck,Another guy and I were lucky) though. I was sitting down in the hole asleep; it darn near covered me up with rock and) dirt, blew my rifle down the hill and sprung it all to hell (I got a different one now) and blew the side of our fox hole out.About 15 minutes later those i darn Chinks attacked. This was about 1:30. I handed ammunition to a guy and as fast as I handed it, he shot it. Believe me, I wondered how it was coming out for a while. Let me tell you this, those Chinks stink bad enough when they are alive, but just take seven days of them dead and each day getting just a little riper you soon get enough of it. It sure didn’t take me long to get to be a combat veteran.Well, anyhow, I can join the V. P. W. when I get home and really belong.We were supposed to get relieved the 27th, but didn’t.If it keeps up we are going to have to go back up on the front lines again and that's bad, not good. I wish we could keep up on what’s happening. We know less about what the war is doing than you do. About all they let us know' is when they start or stop the peace talks. Prom what I can see all we are doing is letting the Reds build up a hell of a big army. I don't think if I get out of here that I ever want to see another 4th of July fireworks displaly. Those big searchlights they used to shine in the sky, you can see four or five of them all the time. Then you can see mortar shells, machine gun tracers for color, rifle fire and ever so often somebody throws out a hand grenade for added color. Then they light up the area with big flares, even on the darkest nights you can see everything for a mile around just as plain as in daylight.Just think, people pay goodFuner at thechurch2 p. m.was kil on Janbe cone old Buti Lenox lt;Both services guard ] the Am the bodmornin; home, ia*be accc escort : ific coa Pvt. ] and M was a schools days oi paratro II, hav •July, 1recalledon Sep Survi and mlt; ence E sisters, Cline c Doris I and I Walter, Coleen and Di Ohio; i Cline, i numerc many ; in deatObiti9HiHerb of Geo was bo. southw that hiand w£ ing foi he be man h Cornin eventuWash,Sacredmoney to see something like I kane this and I can see it free. 11951, ;page es are aniza-r thewas hiurday church kane. He ’We get pretty good chow and all the cigarettes you can smoke, in fact you can pick up good packages off the ground about any time. Every night we get our P X ration of candy, gen-11937 tc erally a Hershey bar and a Life. Maysv: Saver roll. Say, send me an en- j were I velope in your letter and you and E might get letters more regular, spendi vaac- [ You can’t get enough envelopes when : over here and if you do you get accide: all wet and ruin them. Spoka:.4th, a Taylor ix H. Home iose of n the :an beto beR«edsys and clover, »asture, n worn e some te Wis-ce nowIt rained 60 hours over here and I got wet to the skin the first few hours and shivered and shook in my fox hole until the sun came out. All you have to keep you warm is a blanket and that was just as wet as I was, so didn’t help much.If you got that wet and cold at home you would catch your death of darn foolishness.Well, r have to get my shoot-in’ iron” oiled up. It gets as good care as I do. Comes in darn handy at times.Keep the home fires burning and tell Davis not to get writer’s cramp now, ‘cause I am over here for sure.Jim.In the Left his wi ers, Di Howai Calif, coma, Bertyl Ore., Quine of Sa red C Mo., i HouteSta]HoiMri haveI 11. . T M A I
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Lenox Time Table
Lenox, Iowa, US
Thu, Sep 13, 1951
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