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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946
1941-09-16 Page 1
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H&S Co. 136th Med Regt In the field - 1 mi SE Gardner, La APO 34, Camp Claiborne, La Sept. 16, 1941 My dear: We moved about 8:00 AM and were on the road until 4:00 PM. We stopped about 2 hours for noon mess and were stopped two or three times because the roads were blocked, but not for long. Of course, we went slowly because we had several rains yesterday and last night. It looked a certainty that we would get stuck before we got out of the bivouac area, but gunned the old Federal right along. So the boys call me a "Gunner" and a "good one." We only had sandwiches for noon and water and an apple or orange. We hope to get a warm supper. After getting located we shaved and washed up. So feel almost like white people once more. We didn't get any mail at all last night. When we were so close to Claiborne, the postal clerks drove to Claiborne and got the mail there. This avoided the sending of it on to Ragley, La and cut off a day and so the first day they did that they got two days mail in one - the day that was to be forwarded and the day that had just arrived. Now, since we have moved away from Claiborne
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H&S Co. 136th Med Regt In the field - 1 mi SE Gardner, La APO 34, Camp Claiborne, La Sept. 16, 1941 My dear: We moved about 8:00 AM and were on the road until 4:00 PM. We stopped about 2 hours for noon mess and were stopped two or three times because the roads were blocked, but not for long. Of course, we went slowly because we had several rains yesterday and last night. It looked a certainty that we would get stuck before we got out of the bivouac area, but gunned the old Federal right along. So the boys call me a "Gunner" and a "good one." We only had sandwiches for noon and water and an apple or orange. We hope to get a warm supper. After getting located we shaved and washed up. So feel almost like white people once more. We didn't get any mail at all last night. When we were so close to Claiborne, the postal clerks drove to Claiborne and got the mail there. This avoided the sending of it on to Ragley, La and cut off a day and so the first day they did that they got two days mail in one - the day that was to be forwarded and the day that had just arrived. Now, since we have moved away from Claiborne
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