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Evelyn Birkby World War II scrapbook, 1942-1944

February 8, 1943, p.1

Fort Jackson, S.C. 
Sunday Morning
Dear Evelyn-
Here is a note to you on this Sunday morning that is bright with a cool wind. I have just returned from Church and it is now eleven o'clock. That would be ten o'clock Iowa time & things are really getting underway in the Sunday School.
Here comes the mail for today - hope I receive a letter or two - shall let you know in a minute. No mail for Today. We used to have a Corporal in here that was very popular and today he was in the barracks & gave out the mail. He is kind of a screw ball & all the fellows here in the barracks liked him a great deal. They would say "For our Country & Corporal Heining".
Back to Sunday it is sure a day when one has a chance to think for himself and to think of things back home. We have a very nice chapel here & this morning there were 61 of us from the 1st Convalescent Hospital in the morning service.  I think that is very good as there is less than 200 of us. We now have 101 men from Camp Dodge which makes it almost an Iowa unit. We expect a few more men from Camp Dodge this week to fill up the place.

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Fort Jackson, S.C. Sunday Morning Dear Evelyn- Here is a note to you on this Sunday morning that is bright with a cool wind. I have just returned from Church and it is now eleven o'clock. That would be ten o'clock Iowa time & things are really getting underway in the Sunday School. Here comes the mail for today - hope I receive a letter or two - shall let you know in a minute. No mail for Today. We used to have a Corporal in here that was very popular and today he was in the barracks & gave out the mail. He is kind of a screw ball & all the fellows here in the barracks liked him a great deal. They would say "For our Country & Corporal Heining". Back to Sunday it is sure a day when one has a chance to think for himself and to think of things back home. We have a very nice chapel here & this morning there were 61 of us from the 1st Convalescent Hospital in the morning service. I think that is very good as there is less than 200 of us. We now have 101 men from Camp Dodge which makes it almost an Iowa unit. We expect a few more men from Camp Dodge this week to fill up the place.