Letters from George

Dear Ann Feb. 19

I have received quite a few letters from you lately. you said in one that you are writing every week so I checked on the dates they were sent and found you are right. I'm sorry to say that I am not writing that often but the army doesn't believe in giving us that much time off.

I think I have gotten all of your letters now up to Feb. 8. I got the valentines that you and Big Alice sent. I really got a kick out of hers. The packages still haven't arrived. When I do get them the stuff will probably be so hard it will need a chisel to separate it.

Tell Charles to send those jokes just the way they are. they don't need your censorship. you might clean them up so much that they wouldn't even be funny.

What is wrong with Florence. you said she was in the hospital but didn't mention what the trouble was. Let me in on some of the news around home. I would rather have you repeat yourself than to leave me in the dark. you asked about the wrist watch, I have it with me, but to tell you the truth I ruined it. The case didn't fit tight and a lot of dirt was getting in the watch. I tried to bend the case in shape and doing that I knocked a few teeth off the small gear and lost the second hand.

I did get Dottie Smiths letter before I left. I wrote to Lillian last week. I was afraid to write to her before because she didn't seem to stay in one place long enough for me to know where to write. I'd get one letter saying she was in Oklahoma, another telling about her being home at Christmas, and then she wrote herself.

I am still enjoying England. Of course I would rather be home but since there is a war going on I don't think I could have hit a better spot. Keep writing and I will try to do better

your brother George