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John William Graham letters, July 1945
1945-07-18 John Graham to Mr. & Mrs. William J. Graham Page 1
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July 18, 1945 Trinidad Dear Dad & Mom: We're having a regular down pour this morning, the gutters outside the barracks are running level full. Hope it quits long enough to go to noon chow. Maybe I was wrong in thinking the rains were abating around here. Got the Union this morning but no letters [illegible] I'll get one this afternoon. Usually mail from home comes in on the morning delivery. Takes exactly three days from the time an air mail is sent until I get it. Have a chance to ride to chow so I'd better stop and catch it. Several of the boys in our barracks drive trucks and are quite often here at meal time which makes it very convenient. This is the first army laundry I've seen where they would patch your clothes. I had an old khaki shirt which I was going to salvage but it came back all darned & patched so I suppose I'll need to wear it again. They have converted one of the theatres into an air corp supply depot so now I guess the boys will be a little slow on movies for awhile. I havent been since I got here, they've all been miserable third rate pictures and it irks me to have to pay eighteen cents when this is supposed to be [overseas?]. In
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July 18, 1945 Trinidad Dear Dad & Mom: We're having a regular down pour this morning, the gutters outside the barracks are running level full. Hope it quits long enough to go to noon chow. Maybe I was wrong in thinking the rains were abating around here. Got the Union this morning but no letters [illegible] I'll get one this afternoon. Usually mail from home comes in on the morning delivery. Takes exactly three days from the time an air mail is sent until I get it. Have a chance to ride to chow so I'd better stop and catch it. Several of the boys in our barracks drive trucks and are quite often here at meal time which makes it very convenient. This is the first army laundry I've seen where they would patch your clothes. I had an old khaki shirt which I was going to salvage but it came back all darned & patched so I suppose I'll need to wear it again. They have converted one of the theatres into an air corp supply depot so now I guess the boys will be a little slow on movies for awhile. I havent been since I got here, they've all been miserable third rate pictures and it irks me to have to pay eighteen cents when this is supposed to be [overseas?]. In
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