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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946
1941-08-17 Page 2
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oner to the location of the other units and held Church there. He has a small portable organ and one of the boys can play it. Then there is a boy by the name of Marion Welle who is a graduate of Parsons College in Music who is a wonderful singer. He leads the Choir and there are about six or eight boys in the Choir. So they have a pretty fair set up. There were about 75 at the first service and about 200 at the second. We are back home (Regtl Hq) now and writing this before dinner is ready. We have a pretty fair breeze through the tent and the tent itself affords some shade, so it isn't too bad. We get pretty good food and we haven't had a rain so far, so we haven't been too greatly discommoded. The only thing is being so hot and dirty. I told the boys what you wrote about: "How are the maneuvers going: Are you ahead, behind or do you know?" They thought it was pretty good because noone seems to know much about how things are going. We read in the paper that the Third Army maneuver was postponed until Monday at 5:00 AM and that the men could go to town on passes. But, the orders never
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oner to the location of the other units and held Church there. He has a small portable organ and one of the boys can play it. Then there is a boy by the name of Marion Welle who is a graduate of Parsons College in Music who is a wonderful singer. He leads the Choir and there are about six or eight boys in the Choir. So they have a pretty fair set up. There were about 75 at the first service and about 200 at the second. We are back home (Regtl Hq) now and writing this before dinner is ready. We have a pretty fair breeze through the tent and the tent itself affords some shade, so it isn't too bad. We get pretty good food and we haven't had a rain so far, so we haven't been too greatly discommoded. The only thing is being so hot and dirty. I told the boys what you wrote about: "How are the maneuvers going: Are you ahead, behind or do you know?" They thought it was pretty good because noone seems to know much about how things are going. We read in the paper that the Third Army maneuver was postponed until Monday at 5:00 AM and that the men could go to town on passes. But, the orders never
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