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them down here. Everyone is working very hard though and one of these days we should have a fairly comfortable place to live.“The natives here are really of the story book or movie type and that is the only place I have ever seen any like them before. They are coal-black and wear a loin-cloth for a garment and go barefooted all the time. You should see these guys walk right up these coconut trees just like the movies showed them. I haven’t heard any of them speak, but I don’t think they know any English, unless it would be some they picked up from the soldiers.“There are no towns on the island and absolutely no place to spend any money, except at the army post exchange and of course their supplies are very limited. This would really be the place for anyone to come if he was trying to save his money. Saving is a good idea, but I can’t say that I go for this plan of forced saving just because there isn't anything to buy. When we get back to the cities and the big stores we will really go wild buying things again.“Last night I attended the open-air theater and after about an hour fixing on the machine, we really had a very good show. No rain or anything to mar the pleasure. The picture was “Cabin in the Sky” and I liked it real well.“My candle is about burned down, and when that burns down, that is the end of the light around here.{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 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.
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Postville Herald
Postville, Iowa, US
Wed, Feb 02, 1944
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Meg B.
IA, USA 12 Aug 2020
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