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John N. Calhoun family letters, August 1941-February 1946
1943-02-09 Page 1
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Ann Arbor, Mich Feb 9/43 Dearest Dorothea: You surely are having lots of troubles, aren't you? That furnace has been your bug-a-boo most of the time. I suggest you call Fred Scholer as he did us more good before than Kirkpatrick even suspicioned. Certainly happy to learn Dorothy is better and surely hope for her continued and complete recovery. It was mighty nice of the Griesels to send you in those things. Seems like they can't help being good to folks, can they? You might send Grandma to the show with the kids as I think she would enjoy it, too. If you haven't been. So Bill Utley finally pierced the veil, did he? That's swell. And Grandpa Smith can really crow now. And bet he does. Our day wasn't so bad. Three hours of lecture. Then lunch. One hour of drill - one hour of lecture and a practice march or hike - with leggings for about 45 minutes. Then retreat. We have to stand retreat like we did down at Claiborne & also Carlisle. I am Platoon Sergeant of the Second Platoon of our class. I guess I probably told you so in my former letter. Then supper. After supper we had a reception by the faculty and the 8th Class for us. Col Springer and Col Rickey from the JAG Department in Washington were here as guests. They are working out the assignments of the 8th Class for when they get out of school. They interview the men and then assign them where they have a vacancy which the man can fill and as near his desires as possible.
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Ann Arbor, Mich Feb 9/43 Dearest Dorothea: You surely are having lots of troubles, aren't you? That furnace has been your bug-a-boo most of the time. I suggest you call Fred Scholer as he did us more good before than Kirkpatrick even suspicioned. Certainly happy to learn Dorothy is better and surely hope for her continued and complete recovery. It was mighty nice of the Griesels to send you in those things. Seems like they can't help being good to folks, can they? You might send Grandma to the show with the kids as I think she would enjoy it, too. If you haven't been. So Bill Utley finally pierced the veil, did he? That's swell. And Grandpa Smith can really crow now. And bet he does. Our day wasn't so bad. Three hours of lecture. Then lunch. One hour of drill - one hour of lecture and a practice march or hike - with leggings for about 45 minutes. Then retreat. We have to stand retreat like we did down at Claiborne & also Carlisle. I am Platoon Sergeant of the Second Platoon of our class. I guess I probably told you so in my former letter. Then supper. After supper we had a reception by the faculty and the 8th Class for us. Col Springer and Col Rickey from the JAG Department in Washington were here as guests. They are working out the assignments of the 8th Class for when they get out of school. They interview the men and then assign them where they have a vacancy which the man can fill and as near his desires as possible.
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