Sgt Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Ft
Sam Houston
Texas
Thursday Sept 30
My dear Mother,
I received your very welcome
letter and the pictures today and was very glad to receive them. I had been wondering about them. Yes, the pictures of Joe very likely would
quiet weird of him. He has some very
nice ones of himself all made up with stage material and the Chinese furniture. But that was years ago and he of course has
changed since then. His mother told him
to take all that junk off, but he still insisted so we took them. What do you think of the Chinese furniture
and screen which he painted?
Tonight we are going out on a
night problem of Map Reading and it
should be quite interesting. We have not
had one since I have been here.
Well, Major Grubin is back now with all his fancy and elaborate ideas of
how an office should be run. His idea of
the more paper the better certainly outdoes anything that I have seen.
Major Skinner
is going to be gone to Chicago for about fifteen days for the American Board
and also for ten day leave. He is going
to try and make a special list’s rating in EEMT
work. He has been studying quite hard
for it and I sure hope that he makes it.
They are going to have some
more operations on the dogs here during the next few weeks and they should
prove quite interesting. I may even get
a chance to assist with one or two of them. So far the officers have done all
that type of thing but they perhaps will change and have a technician assist as
scrub nurse or third on the operating team.
Well here we are in again
after the field map reading and what a mess, we could not find any of the
stakes and all I or shall I say, we, got out of the deal was wet feet and tired
of walking around in the dark. So
finally we got tired and came in and we haven’t heard anything of it since
then.
Here it is the next day and
we have not heard anything yet of the map reading yet.
After we went to bed last
night it rained quite hard but this afternoon or rather this morning it was
quite clear and we went on the usual hike and I rather enjoyed it for it was
just warm enough and nothing extreme as it was before in some cases either too
hot or too cold.
If this letter seems confused
it is because they are having interviews in here this afternoon and I have to
be in here for the purpose of calling them in and the rest of the things that
go to having these interviews. The rest
of the boys this afternoon are all off because they went out last night but
here the office crews still is. Always
that way.
Major Skinner left today for
Chicago and will be gone for about fifteen days.
I am going to miss him. His friend Major Kuhns will also be gone for about 12 days since his wife had
a baby recently. He is quite overjoyed
and has handed out about three boxes of cigars and is still going strong. He is the one which I spoke of as being such
a gentleman and quite diplomatic. He is
a dental officer and from what I hear he is one of the best dental officers we
have.
Mrs. Tedesco
said that Captain and Mrs. Foster of the Medical Service School was over to the house the other evening and
they both raved over them. I did not
know it but her husband collects bookends and she has books for them all.
I am going to see Gladys one of these evenings and give
her the little Redwood vase.
Well the afternoon drags on
and the boys come in and out and the same old questions are asked again and
again.
Sgt Ryan and
Cpl. Moore asked me to go to town
with them this afternoon but here I am sitting here.
Well I guess that I had
better be closing now but I will write again soon and keep up on my writing to
you folks at home.
As ever lots of love,
Your son,
Stanley
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