Sgt
Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Fort
Sam Houston
Texas
March 6, 1944
Dear Mother:
I am very late this time in writing
you so will write a short note tonight and at least get this much accomplished. We have really been busy here the last few
days and when I am thru in the evening I don’t feel like doing much of anything
other than resting or finding some kind of an amusement such as a show
etc. Saturday I saw “Madame Curie” which I surely want to recommend
to you as a must see, it was really good.
It is something good away from the regular German or Jap spy picture
that I will not go to see any more. I
also saw “Government Girl” which was
very amusing.
I received your Air Mail telling of Grandma’s death[1]
and it really was no great surprise to me, in fact when the letter came I
almost suspected what it was. She has
certainly lasted a long time and her long life has seen a lot of things and she
has stood a lot. There are not many of
her pioneer kind left.
Well we started our double training
program this week and it is a huge job if you ask me my opinion, and then today
the bomb shell broke in our midst. They
are taking twenty-five officers away from us which will cut our figure down
quite a bit, in fact to the place where we will no longer have enough officers
to carry on a full program. It looks to
me we’ll be here for some time to come.
It all goes to prove just what I said “They had no other place for them when they sent them here”. They
are now ready to use them elsewhere so off they go.
They are still pipe dreaming the
bivouac to Galveston and from the looks of things we are really going to be
going, whether we fly or ride I do not know.
Say the code I think we should try out should be put into use very
soon. The way you can tell the letters
with such are, when the date is the regular way there will be none, but when it
is the army way (6 March 1944) there will be a note contained in the next to
the last paragraph by putting the first letter of each word following the name
of a person, including the first letter of the name. Do you think it will work?
Well again I have had, while here in
the office writing, visitors. They are
nice fellows but when w get to talking the time flies by quite rapidly and I
get nothing done.
So my evening is about done for and I
am quite tired, so will go to bed for some rest.
My Income Tax papers will be on their
way very soon and you can take care of them for me.
All my love,
Stanley
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