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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-December 1941
1941-04-19: Page 01
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Saturday [Apr. 19, 1941] Dear Bob: A thought has occurred to me which I am passing on for your consideration. It looks as if we are all going to be in the army sooner or later--probably sooner. Therefore, it might be wise to do a little thinking about where we are going to land and what we can do about it. My draft number is 1866 in Johnson County and it is my guess that normally I would be called late in the summer or next fall. Now I am wondering what yours is. If your position is similar to mine why don't we see if some way or another we can get into the same division of the army in the same camp. How can this be done? Well probably only by volunteering. I don't suppose you, or me either for that matter, would be anxious to do that until you were sure you were going to be called in the near future. What I am getting around to is this. Why don't you determine about when are going to be called and I'll do the same and if we are going to have to go at the same time we might volunteer in the air corps or the navy or the marines. Thus we could get a commission and be together, etc. Incidentally, J. George is due to go on regular draft call the latter part of this month unless he can get into the Marines as he is trying to do. Now all this is just a sudden thought and I don't know that I will feel the same tomorrow or that my folks would approve if they knew of what I am writing. In short I am not committing myself definitely but I think it is worth thinking about. What is your slant. Let me know as soon as you have time. You may have some thing else in mind, if so don't give this a thought. In other words just like so many of our erstwhile plans everthing is tentative and embryonic. Yours, Nile
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Saturday [Apr. 19, 1941] Dear Bob: A thought has occurred to me which I am passing on for your consideration. It looks as if we are all going to be in the army sooner or later--probably sooner. Therefore, it might be wise to do a little thinking about where we are going to land and what we can do about it. My draft number is 1866 in Johnson County and it is my guess that normally I would be called late in the summer or next fall. Now I am wondering what yours is. If your position is similar to mine why don't we see if some way or another we can get into the same division of the army in the same camp. How can this be done? Well probably only by volunteering. I don't suppose you, or me either for that matter, would be anxious to do that until you were sure you were going to be called in the near future. What I am getting around to is this. Why don't you determine about when are going to be called and I'll do the same and if we are going to have to go at the same time we might volunteer in the air corps or the navy or the marines. Thus we could get a commission and be together, etc. Incidentally, J. George is due to go on regular draft call the latter part of this month unless he can get into the Marines as he is trying to do. Now all this is just a sudden thought and I don't know that I will feel the same tomorrow or that my folks would approve if they knew of what I am writing. In short I am not committing myself definitely but I think it is worth thinking about. What is your slant. Let me know as soon as you have time. You may have some thing else in mind, if so don't give this a thought. In other words just like so many of our erstwhile plans everthing is tentative and embryonic. Yours, Nile
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