Sgt
Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Ft
Sam Houston
Texas
November
22, 1943
There
are some more pictures but I will send the negatives on later (PS at the top of the message)
Dear
Mother:
As
you said in your last letter “About time
to start on another letter to you”.
The weekend went by quite rapidly and I spent all of it firing up fancy
things and schedules for the Colonel who inspected us here today. He was quite pleased and I stood in on the
round table which he had with our Col. And
the other officers here. He asked quite
a few questions and they were all very easily answered as far as I was
concerned. Some of the officers here can
stumble once some of the smallest and most simple questions which they should
know. And the laugh comes when they make
up some of the excuses. They are really
good.
Well
I have just finished trying to build a fire in our little stove so that it will
not get too cold in here this evening.
We have had to have fires every morning here lately and always in the
evening. Also the fire keeps the tent
from becoming damp and that is when the clothes feel and look awful.
We
all went up to the main post this evening or rather afternoon to see another of
the War Department Training Films. “The
Battle of Russia”[1]
and this one was very good for a change.
It started out in the same old propaganda way but there are always some
good points to even those types of films.
The other day we had one of Walt
Disney[2]’s
new ones here, on the “Mesquito”[3]
and it was all very good Technicolor, and amusing as well as educational. And
we had another one the other day on colored smoke grenades in Technicolor. They are something new which the army has
developed in warfare, for signals etc.
You
asked if you should cut the tops of the Gerberas. Yes, you can cut them off now and then toward
Spring you can put a good mulch of rabbit manure over them and they will then
come up nice and green for the next season.
Well
after putting enough paper in the fire it is finally beginning to burn. This wood is all right when it once gets
started.
I
received a Thanksgiving card and a very delicious piece of fruit cake that Aunt Dell made. They both came yesterday. She said that she could not write for very
long periods of time. She said that she
has not heard of Leland having a
baby in his family as yet. Don’t any of
the Saffords ever write east any more?
Thanksgiving has not really impressed me this year since the army
has not declared it a holiday and we of course have at least half a day planned
although I don’t know what it will amount to.
I should really have something to be thankful for this year. I am still here on this side with a
reasonably comfortable degree of living quarters and at least wood to keep warm
with. And some very good parents at
home. Excuse the yellow spots on the paper
but it is ink eradicator which I had to use on some things which I had
scratched on there a couple days ago while still in the box.
They
are having quite a fuss here in San Antonio over the German prisoners. Someone is
claiming that they are being mistreated etc.
Well, we have exactly the same kind of quarters and food that they have
so they had better start feeling sorry for us first.
I
sure hope you folks at home have a grand and wonderfully laden table this
Thanksgiving and let’s hope for another one next year when I will be home to
share it with you.
All
my love,
Your
son,
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