Sgt
Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Fort
Sam Houston
Texas
12 June 1944
Dearest Mother:
Just a line to let you know that I am
still here and have not dried up and blown away yet.
The heat here has been extreme the
last couple days and today the weather was very changeable. It tried to rain a couple of times but never
really got anything wet.
Major Skinner
and his party of two or three are leaving tomorrow on the advance party for POE. Of course I do not know where it
is and it would be a military secret if I did know.
We have been quite rushed here and
the officers are about all signed in now and we are in the midst of processing
the whole bunch.
The nurses training program begins
tomorrow and that is the beginning of more trouble. They have already been a
big pain already. They are not able or
do not want to do one thing after the other, and the head nurse is the fault of
the whole mess.
Major Grubin
is back from his week at home in bed and as yet is not feeling any too spry.
I went into town yesterday and had
dinner and saw a show with a friend of mine here. We had turkey and I had fresh green corn on
the cob and it was certainly delicious.
And of course my favourite of course is always iced tea with my meals
and believe me it really is nice on these days.
I have been hunting a Parker 51 pen
for dad but have been unable to find one so far. They are quite scarce.
I at last have the saber all wrapped
and will mail it tomorrow and will hope that it goes thru alright.
Received a letter from Frances Whelchel yesterday and she
tells me also of Esther’s arm not yet getting any better.
I got a lot of new clothes today and
I am going to have some work done on some of them since they are quite out of
fits in places.
Sgt Ryan is
back again and feeling quite well.
Sgt Rapp’s
wife had some delicious fried liver with onions which was very good and it was
the first liver I have had in a long time that I really cared for.
I delayed sending the letter you
mentioned since I wanted to mail it elsewhere for certain reasons.
I look for the European Theater first since the monsoons are just beginning and all
the other disagreeable things are starting in Asia.
No I never expected to get that much
returned and there was no place on the blank that indicated that I would get any
certain amount back.
I heard from Newton Eberhard whom, you once ran kindly home, remember him?
Well enough for now and will write
more later.
Love,
Stanley
