Cpl Stanley W Safford
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Ft
Sam Houston
Texas
Sept 24, 1943
Dear Folks,
Arrived here at 6:00pm last
evening quite tired and dirty, the same as upon my arrival home. Was too tired and had so many things to do
that I did not have time then to write you a line so will do so now.
They have certainly got to
sell me a Pullman ticket next time I come home for never again will I take a
ride like that one. The car was no
better than the first one but I did at least have a seat and was it hot coming
thru Yuma and of course there was no air conditioning so that was of course a
great help, and was the wonderful delicious lunch a great for I only went to
the dining car once on the entire trip and I want you to know how much I
appreciate your firing(?) it for. The
venison sandwiches were certainly delicious.
Well, it seems that the group
has certainly been having a time of it with special inspections and all the
rest just to see how near ready we really are towards going overseas and a few
are quite excited but the balance are not very excited and the Col. Has brought
his wife down to live here for awhile which of course may be taken two ways.
That candy that Mrs. Miner
gave me was certainly delicious and you should have taken some of it.
Come to find out I have that
income tax thing here and was using it as a bookmark n that so I will look it
over and see what I can make of it and send in whatever I have to mail in. What was it that you said I had to do about
it?
I want to write Nelson and I
do not have his address so will you send it to me if you think of it in your
next letter. I believe that I have all
the other addresses here that I will want.
The office here as it always
did have a lot of changes and there are still a lot of things to be done and a
lot more changes to be made but they will have to wait their turn. They have discarded a lot of the bad ones
from the group and perhaps will do more in the future.
This morning to start things
off with a bang I took or rather went on one of their hikes and I was not a bit
tired when I came back but some of the others who have come back from furlough
sure felt weak and quite exhausted but of course from what I hear they didn’t
spend too much time at home and all of it running around so there is very
likely the reason for it. I regret that
I did not spend more time at home than I did because time was so short and I am
not going to forget it for a long time and I am going to be looking forward to
coming home on another furlough and then of course I would be more than glad to
go home for good.
You certainly tried and succeeded
in making my stay at home an enjoyable one and you perhaps are still tired from
the work and the trouble I put you to.
I will have to get busy and
write several short letters and once again get started on some correspondence
and that will keep my time well occupied and I have made up my mind that from
now on it is going to be a different story and I am going to do my work well
but am not going to break my neck while at it as I have done in the past and I
will get just as much out of it. Because
I get back to find the rest of them not exerting themselves any all because
they are now at the top of their ladder and then can go no further. I still have in the back of my mind of
getting out of here and trying to get somewhere that I will be able to work up.
Well my time is growing short
so will close now and will start another one very shortly and give you more
details of my trip and make it a much longer one. I want to thank you so very much for
everything you have done for me and I shall never be able to repay you for it
all.
Lots of love,
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