April 17, 1944

Sgt Stanley W Safford 39539976

5^th Auxiliary Surgical Group

Dodd Field

Fort Sam Houston

Texas

April 17, 1944

Dear Mother:

Again the week end has gone by and I did not write you.  In fact I am quite a few days behind in writing.

I laid in bed yesterday until late and barely got up in time for lunch.  Received your nice long letter of the 12, yesterday along with a three page typewritten one from Joe.  His letter of course was very interesting.  I have been worn out here lately more of the sudden heat which we have had the three or four day.  We are getting the heat from now on I suppose.  The heat has not been so very hard or anything, only we have had a lot of cross checking etc to do.

You mentioned going to church or rather liking to go Easter.  I did go Friday but laid in bed Sunday as usual.  I enjoyed the sermon very much but liked to have fallen asleep while or before the evening was over.

Did I mention to you previously that I had bought a new fountain pen, a Parker lifetime.  I think that it is a very nice one and have put it away for a while.  I am still looking for a Parker “51” for Dad. They of course are a little more expensive than mine.

We sent off 25 of our enlisted men today on a two months Bond selling tour, they may be gone even for a longer period of time.  And from what I hear the balance will go to Detached Service about the First of May.

Enclosed you will find a clipping which I saved from our storm of a couple of weeks ago.  You may be interested in it.  A couple of the boys got letters from New York with some of the pictures which had appeared in the papers there.  They all gave a nice flowery story of all the damage.

A lot of the boys arrived back from furlough over the week end. And two of them got married while home.  One of them I know fairly well.

I was up to see Sgt Ryan yesterday and I think he is really enjoying the hospital.  He is feeling much better and they have still got his jaws wired which makes it very hard to talk clearly.  He is making all kinds of yarn rugs etc.

I will get all of my Income tax material home to you provided I can get a hold of a blank short form to put this year’s figures on.  By rights you should pay on the amount of interest which you could received as part of the interest on my bank account.  Had you thought of it as yet?

How is Aunt Nina enjoying her freedom now that she is no longer working?

Yes, I want to go to Knotts Berry Farm[1] again for I sure enjoyed it there the once we were out.

The hoodlums are just now coming in from the baseball game.  They have baseball games(s) on the brain now and don’t seem to think of anything else.  They all can spend more money running all the way across town than any outfit I know of.

Well enough for now as I have no more news.

Good Night,

Love,

Stanley

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[1] In 1928, Cordelia Knott's tea room and berry market, named Knott's Berry Place, opened on their family farm.  In 1932, Walter Knott created a new berry, a cross between the red raspberry, blackberry and loganberry. He named it the boysenberry, in honor of his friend Rudolph Boysen..  Two years later, Mrs. Knott began serving her famous chicken dinners.  Since then, more than 200 million guests have visited the park.  The park was acquired by Cedar Fair, L.P. in 1997.  Knott's Soak City, USA, a 13-acre water park adjacent to the amusement park, opened in June of 2000. http://www.coastergallery.com/GA/knotts.html

Dodd Field, Ft Sam Houston

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