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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, 1945

1945-06-10 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 6

one evening. Ray has more of the "beatingest" ideas about war. He thinks volunteer should have been used and one should fight for patriotic reasons, still he wants universal military training after the war. He thinks business doesn't profit in war time because of "restrictions". Poor Howard Hall isn't making as much now as he would in peace time. The town is lousy with Collins and his expansions. If wars are not primarily economic, I'll eat my short. He knows enough names of history to rattle them off faster than you ever could. But way down under he doesn't know as much about history or causes and effects as he sounds. I believe even though he had education you didn't he knows less. Wars are a bad, mean job; get the fighting done to come home. But to get emotion steamed up for glory is the doing of the bosses to gain not for the common man but their selfish advantages, both economic and political. I wouldn't belittle any deed of one of our soldiers, because it comes down to one man and many men united doing heroic fighting. But I can't see how he can believe all the contradictions he expressed in the same conversation.
As to the chickens. It will take many more months before my skin is normal, if ever. It is steadily improving and when I have on my war paint I wouldn't stop a clock by my looks,

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one evening. Ray has more of the "beatingest" ideas about war. He thinks volunteer should have been used and one should fight for patriotic reasons, still he wants universal military training after the war. He thinks business doesn't profit in war time because of "restrictions". Poor Howard Hall isn't making as much now as he would in peace time. The town is lousy with Collins and his expansions. If wars are not primarily economic, I'll eat my short. He knows enough names of history to rattle them off faster than you ever could. But way down under he doesn't know as much about history or causes and effects as he sounds. I believe even though he had education you didn't he knows less. Wars are a bad, mean job; get the fighting done to come home. But to get emotion steamed up for glory is the doing of the bosses to gain not for the common man but their selfish advantages, both economic and political. I wouldn't belittle any deed of one of our soldiers, because it comes down to one man and many men united doing heroic fighting. But I can't see how he can believe all the contradictions he expressed in the same conversation. As to the chickens. It will take many more months before my skin is normal, if ever. It is steadily improving and when I have on my war paint I wouldn't stop a clock by my looks,