Sgt. Stanley W Safford 39539976
5th Auxiliary Surgical Group
APO 339
c/o Post Master
New York New York
Holland
December 26, 1944
Dear Mother:
Surprise! Another note just to let
you know that I am still here and so far am enjoying myself a great deal while
I have the opportunity.
Today Sgts Kupfer, Olson and myself started out after lunch and saw a
little of the town and again I saw some things which I had not seen on previous
trips. We stopped in at the Red Cross doughnut and coffee shop for
coffee and doughnuts which were delicious since it required an overcoat outside
and also my new scarf which I find quite comforting here. There was ice on the canal and ice on all the
small puddles which remained there all day.
After the coffee etc we went further and discovered they were having a
concert with a choir and they were having a concert with a choir and soprano
soloist, so we had to take that in also and found it quite enjoyable and a lot
of good music which has been my first since leaving the states. After the concert we came back and had a
snack made up of our Xmas presents. We
had not had enough gadding then so decided to take in another stage show and
found it very good and a lot of good amusement there. We are now all back and have settled down to
letter counting etc.
I wrote a letter last night to Mrs. Tedesco, Nelson and Whitney who is
now in France somewhere. My letter writing is all caught up as the
mail I have received of late has been very little. In fact none of us over here have received
any great load. We have received our
package tho in fairly good order.
You know that while I was in bed I
received the same care as is routine for the other ward patients which included
240,000 units of penicillin divided into a total of 12 shots plus a lot of
sulfa every 4 hours (q 4h). You can figure up the cost in civilian life at
20,000 units per shot. Amazing the things
they do here.
Well this is about all for now and I
will write again soon. I expect to have
the time.
All my Love, your son
Stanley
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