Sgt. Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th Auxiliary Surgical Group
APO 339
c/o Post Master
New York New York
Holland
4 February 1945
Dearest Mother:
Have here before me your most welcome
letters of Dec 14, 30 and January 9, so you have an idea the way the mail had
been arriving here recently. Altho the
other day we really had an abundance of mail for the month of December. So far all that has arrived here recently has
been Air and a couple V-Mail.
Yes I can well imagine the trouble
which Jay is giving you now and of all the trouble in the future. I very promptly answered him for the candied
fruit and have sent him one of my recent pictures.
In Muriel’s letter which I received today she mentions George Ohashi as being in Los Angeles
on business. I was very much surprised
to hear that.
I am certainly beginning to wonder
just where the increased allotment has gone to for three months. I am going to have to investigate a little.
You should never worry about the expense
etc which I may go on gifts etc, as I enjoy doing it and I never go out my way
to get things. As a rule things are
quite high and of no value so I choose to not bother. I am in hopes of going to Brussels soon and you may get something
from there.
In regards to your lace doilies
mentioned in your letter of Dec 27. They
as well as the wooden shoes and little vases were all purchased in Bastogne, the little Belgian city so
recently in the news. The little soap
shoes are some of my work, done in spare time.
I surely hope your glasses do you
some good as evidently you are in need of something and I hope they are the
answer to your problem.
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| Grace Safford, Jan 1945 |
All of your gifts sound very nice.
The lace handkerchief is not quite as
nice as it could be. The lace is just
very poorly sewn on and would stand no wear at all.
Nelson owes me a letter as I wrote
him last. I am quite behind in all my
mail as quite a bit of old mail has arrived recently.
I received your letter of Jan 1 with
the 2 pictures and the 4 air mail stamps.
I really like the picture of you and appreciate your sending it. I think the picture of Muriel and her friends
is nice and Howard Kiel is a very
nice looking fellow and I am looking forward to hearing from him.
In regards to the celebration you
mentioned. We had a small one and that was about all. I will tell you more later when my other news
runs out.
We have done a little more moving
here again and I am in a small room again which I enjoy very much as I have the
privacy to write and have a restful mind.
We had to move after New Years and now again makes it two times so far
this year in the same building.
I am now up to your letter of Jan 8
and will answer that one.
You have no reason to feel ashamed of
not writing as I am quite tardy also with mine.
You have not yet acknowledged the
receipt of my last two money orders. I
hope you have gotten them.
In answer to your question about me
receiving all of your packages. I have
received all five of them and found them all in good order. I have certainly enjoyed all of your nice
long letters this season and enjoy going back over them before writing you
today.
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| Christmas 1944: Earl Fickle, Muriel Safford, Carl Davis, Howard Kiel |
Your mention of meeting people with
war brings to my mind the thought that there are quite a few I would never have
missed. And there are a few of them I
certainly will not miss if we were to part tomorrow.
Mrs. Miner
mentioned Donald as being in bed but
did not mention the cause.
One of the boys here knows just where
the Lyons lodge is. He says it is
beautiful there. His home is not far
from Cour de Lain[1], Idaho.
No we do not have a chaplain and I
feel as tho we are getting along without one.
I have seen some awful examples of chaplains over here. Yes, we have the Engineers here. They build all the bridges and other construction
jobs. Some of the 4th Auxiliary boys were flown into Bastogne. They received the Bronze Star. One of the
Majors of theirs is the brother of one of my Service School friends from
Boston. He had a third III on the end of his name etc. quite surprised to hear of his brother over
here flying around.
I heard from Barbara Olmstead moving back East, didn’t help her much.
Well about all for now and more at a
later time.
As always, all my love
Your son
Stanley
From the transcriber:
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