Sgt
Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Fort
Sam Houston
Texas
June 29, 1944
Dearest Mother:
I had better begin another letter to
you, so as to be able to keep up our or rather try to keep up my two a week
which has failed quite often here lately.
Our time here is I believe growing
near an end. I think that if we see two more week-ends here we will be
lucky. They have a bivouac planned for
the officers and nurses for Monday and Tuesday of next week and after that I do
not believe it will be long.
Everyone here knows we are ready to
leave and are all excited over the whole affair and are all telling us goodbye.
Ha Ha. Have I mentioned that the group next door is going thru San Francisco on
their way out.
Received your letter of the 21 June
which you mailed on the 24, the other day. Very glad to hear of Aunt Edith and daughter visiting you
and hope dad and yourself have a nice time.
Well we have really had a bit of
excitement here the last couple days with the nurses. I knew of course
that it was coming all the time. One of
the truck drivers had taken the nurses somewhere and was waiting for them when
one of them returned early and found him laying in the back of the truck asleep
and she awoke him and from what I hear suggested he use her lap for a pillow,
so in such a position did the second nurse in charge a(t) Brooke General, a
major, find them, and oh! The fireworks
did start. Officers, nurses and enlisted
men have all been given lectures on the subject and enlisted men told to stay
away from the nurses entirely etc.
Last Saturday they had a field
inspection of all three groups and a ceremony of giving out some more Good Conduct Medals to the enlisted
men. Quite a display and everyone and
their dog was there to see it. It is quite a rare thing to see so many officers
and nurses together at one time.
Major Grubin
is on a two day leave and I am here alone in the office and have had nothing
too difficult come up yet. He will (be)
back on Saturday.
Today about two o’clock after about
four weeks of terrific heat it started to cloud up and a strong wind came up,
and within a few minutes it was pouring.
It has done the same thing three or four times since then and everything
is all soaked but will soon dry out when the heat returns again.
I have been really doing a lot of
cataloguing and packing of manuals of all kinds the last few days, and have
just about gotten all of them and I hope to have them all mailed in by Wed. of
next week.
You might start hoarding some tea for
me because I am or may want some where I think we are going. In that case you can send me some and I can
have hot tea of an afternoon.
You are going to get this footlocker
of mine soon and it will be nailed shut but you open it and put away the things
as I will inform you later.
Enclosed you will find a couple
pictures which may interest you. I was
afraid to have them sent home for fear of not getting them back in time.
All my love,
Your son,
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