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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946
1941-08-26 Page 3
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Gen, Major Jenkins is beginning to get grey. You don't need to mention it to anyone, but it is surely beginning to tell on him the amount of worries he has had. He doesn't leave camp very much and is usually up late and early. My hair is beginning to get pretty long and will try and get a haircut as soon as I can. The big trouble is that when we do get to town there are so many sol-diers waiting to get a haircut that it would take all afternoon to get to you. Honey, I appreciate how nicely you are taking this military es-capade of mine. Maybe I'm all wrong. I don't know. All I can do is to guess as to the best thing to do for the future. It is very un-certain no matter which way one turns. I do hope that some way or other it turns out that we can give the kids a college edu-cation, or at least help them, and then have enough to take care of both of us in our later years. For that reason we must save all we can. I sus-pect in later years there is the possibility of a pension from the government and if so it will be more secure then any land, stocks, business or money we might have. Then, too, I'm mak-
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Gen, Major Jenkins is beginning to get grey. You don't need to mention it to anyone, but it is surely beginning to tell on him the amount of worries he has had. He doesn't leave camp very much and is usually up late and early. My hair is beginning to get pretty long and will try and get a haircut as soon as I can. The big trouble is that when we do get to town there are so many sol-diers waiting to get a haircut that it would take all afternoon to get to you. Honey, I appreciate how nicely you are taking this military es-capade of mine. Maybe I'm all wrong. I don't know. All I can do is to guess as to the best thing to do for the future. It is very un-certain no matter which way one turns. I do hope that some way or other it turns out that we can give the kids a college edu-cation, or at least help them, and then have enough to take care of both of us in our later years. For that reason we must save all we can. I sus-pect in later years there is the possibility of a pension from the government and if so it will be more secure then any land, stocks, business or money we might have. Then, too, I'm mak-
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