Sgt
Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th
Auxiliary Surgical Group
Dodd
Field
Fort
Sam Houston
Texas
April 4, 1944 (enveloped stamped May5)
Dear Mother:
I decided to try and write you a few
lines this evening and perhaps catch up again to my two letters per week at
last.
For the past three days I have been
going up and helping Sgt Rapp clean
out his house on the post and get it ready for his wife who is coming down in a
couple of weeks.
We are cleaning all the floors and
wood work and are going to hang curtains etc.
He tells me he is quite glad to have my knowledge of home making with
me. He tells me he has never had
anything to do with that sort of thing before.
I will go into details of the house at a later time.
I received your letter of the 28th
telling me of Richard’s missing over
Austria and I shall have to write Mrs.
Miner a letter soon. It is certainly
too bad and I am sorry to hear of it. It
very likely hit Mrs. Miner quite hard as she has already been quite sick of his
being over there, let alone the fighting.
I hope there is the chance that he may be in enemy hands as a
prisoner. I am the same as you regarding
the control of emotions when it comes to subjects of this kind.
We have heard nothing but bivouac for the last few weeks here in
the offices and they have talked of flying both going and returning by air to
such places as Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Great Lakes, etc. But we will very likely end up by going up
here to Marfa, Texas or Hot Springs, Arkansas, at least I hope so.
The other day we had a very nice hike
with a swim afterwards during which time one of the Majors helped me with my
swimming. I often wonder if I will ever
be able to swim.
Received a letter from Jay the other day and I will have to
return him a short note. I send him
short ones in answer to his short ones.
He tells me that Aunt Nina
and Uncle Bill are just his friends.
I am going to go to Fort Worth one of
these weekends on a three day pass to see the Botanical Gardens there which
should be very nice now. Mrs. Tedesco tells me that the roses
are very nice there now.
It would make a nice trip for me and
some relaxation.
The weather here has been none too
good the last couple days. A cold wind
combined with rain all day today and rain all day yesterday and the day
before. And this office was like a barn
all day and I had to wear my field jacket all day and my raincoat when I did
not have the jacket on outside. We have
been having some spectacular lightning storm here also and the tent would be as
bright as day at times during the night.
The frogs are really coming out and they are making their noise all
night.
The Medical Laboratory next door (is) giving out blanket furloughs so
they will very likely be on their way soon.
A person would really be surprised to see the great number of fellows
which I have known in the posy, back here at Ft.Sam Houston in the reassignment
antic who have already been overseas and back already for some reason or the
other.
Well I am tired now so will close
send you my love and asking you to take care of yourself.
What is Maibelle’s
sons name? Jerry what?
Love,
Stanley
Hope you can read this…
