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1 The January 19 letter follows.)“I'm sort of late with this letter, but it seems I have been busy night and day with this and that and can never find time to sit down and write. Then too, it seems hard to write, because there just isn’t anything here that makes news or anything else.i-I haven’t had a single piece of mail since arriving here and I am beginning to wonder when we will get some. At first I just didn't have time to think of the mail, but now that I am more or less settled (if you can call it that) I am starting to miss my letters again.’ Last Sunday I spent all afternoon doing my washing and you would have laughed if you could have seen me. All I had was a small brush, a bar of P G, a board and a bucket of water and it took plenty of elbow grease before I had finished the job. I did ; manage to get my clothes good and 1 clean, but what a job I have had trying to dry them. I have been running fi om the tent to the office between showers taking them down and putting them back up every day since and today they are finally dry. I’m afraid that this washing business is going to get rather tiresome and believe me,I have cut down on the amount of clothes that I have been wearing. I won’t be as clean as before or as clean as I’d like to be, but everyone else here is in the same boat and there isn’t a thing that can be done about it. I“We now have some showers rigged up and can at least wash in fresh I water, but the water is at a premium and the shower is a makeshift affair, made out of an old barrel with holes in the bottom and certainly nothing fancy. It is better than nothing however, and we can get by all right.“The main thing that I have noticed here is the change in food. Of course, we don’t have anything like we had before and the only fresh meat we have had since coming here is mutton and you know how I like that. I just can’t eat it and have to get along with- I out meat when they serve it. The I evening meal was the final pay-off though and I couldn't have eaten it I no matter how hungry I was. The I meat was lamb tongues, if you can I imagine it There is one* thing about i it though, and that is you can't run over to the PX or anywhere else and
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Postville Herald
Postville, Iowa, US
Wed, Feb 02, 1944
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Meg B.
IA, USA 11 Aug 2020
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