Letters from George

Dear Marian,

I got your letter and was very pleased. I just got out of the hospital yesterday. I was in a couple of weeks with the flu. I feel fine now. I haven't been doing much sporting lately due to that.

That cartoon you sent was pretty good, sometimes I feel like cutting a hole in the table myself. I'm afraid I won't know how to eat when I leave the army. When we go in the mess hall we all stand up. Then when the mess sargeant blows the whistle we all sit down and start to eat. It's a regular free for all. The ones with the longest reach get the most to eat. I don't do bad for myself, I never go hungry.

Bucky seems to like the Air Corps. It's too bad his boyfriends didn't take your address. Joe Hoffman really was lucky meeting his brother. That really must be a thrill when you are in some far off place to run into somebody you know real well, especially a brother. I think he's wasting his time on Ella though, she's a little too wild to wait for somebody until after the war is over. I hate to be planning on marrying something like that when the war's over.

I don't know when I will get my furlough although it should be soon. I don't know whether I told you in my last letter or not but the Lieutenant General that was in charge of this camp and promised us our furloughs was moved himself. That just goes to show you that you can't put too much dependence on anything in the army.

Everything is about the same. I am sending you this picture and I will try to have some more to send you later. Well, So long.

Your brother George.

This is the letter George wrote just after leaving the camp hospital — the same stay during which Fay McKenzie's troupe visited. See the hospital letters →