European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 9, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                My aching background it is exactly 18 months since i kissed my draft Board on both skipped Over to grand Central Palace raising my Arm to a tall promised to love and Honor the army and obey everyone in i have come a Long Way since As witness the fact that i am now a full but my Progress can Best be estimated by the manner in which i have benefited by the army lavished a National these i have Learned How to make my bed and lie in it two sheets and two blankets and a six Inch or one Sheet and one mattress or a mattress cover with no or a shelter half bedding Down which consists of an old Field jacket and a dirty Wool How to pass a saturday morning buy a new fumigate my borrow the Cooks Cartridge Belt and then wind up on up and not have to stand the inspection after about up 1 How to prepare a tasty cocktail of soap and disinfectant that is just warm enough to blast an Inch of syrup off dishes but not so warm that it scalds the nails off my just the outer layer of skin 2 that some things in the army Are not nearly As comic As they appear from the up is Only one of these others Are Tough ser bucking for a Section chaplains and Uso these skills and sem skills mowing making sewing cutting my own washing firing the Retreat soak ing loading cutting stencils and waving Maggie drawers always with malicious to walk my Post in a somewhat military Man keeping frequently on the Alert and observing quite a bit within and two More of the general that if one has younger Brothers in the army they must outrank i Haven been Able to find this regulation in any of the books it must be one of those Universal ground How to i a joke indispensable in writing a Soldier this consists of a Standard joke and Militar izing a few characters and refer example you be Good for five minutes ill be Good for 20 years same Gid privates can t you be Good for three minutes tech ser ill be Good for 30 years a few common army words and phrases used y the average among these Are goof sweat it Snow Bat the these Are Good and useful but the sum of my experience in this regard is that this is a fairly Slang less i have yet to hear a Soldier refer to another Soldier As either i Joe or probably my chief gain is an increased respect Lor the other fellow and the importance or Chevron value of his Job As compared to mine i say this m utmost and sincerest and in this growth in tolerance May lie the key to this surely this is the heart of the matter has my army training raised my total postwar citizen value the final answer is not yet ready of out one result is already i have become contributions for this Page should be addressed to the Post the army 205 East 42d new York much More lovable even maps and company clerks get Nice words from this could be merely a slowing up due to Middle if this is the by the time i get out i May be Down right fort Martin Weldon an extra Blanket for Fletcher his face turned Down against the icy blasts of trudged Down the Snow banked company Street to the Supply he Shook the Snow from his shoes and quietly entered and quickly closed the Supply room door behind a Juicy cud of beechnut chewing tobacco reposing in his right and with his oversized feet propped up beside the looked up As the frigid air swirled into his Sanctum what the Hella you Soldier he annoyed at being disturbed in the Middle of a Good awed by staff particularly when they were Supply nervously cleared his id like an extra he said i guess in sorta last night i  i was so that just to said is this an army Camp or a campfire girls id like to know a got two blankets like everybody Mintcha i Fletcher an but i still get Owens took careful aim and spat a Stream of beechnut at a bucket which served As combination Cuspid or and trash it was a near doubly annoyed by his Lack of Marks Manship and the intruding he sneered sorry we aint got none of them general elec tric electrically heated they be swell to Issue to Guys like he winked with an evil or better we ought Issue Nice warm blondes what Day Gonna do when a have to sleep in a foxhole with a blizzard Ragin All Aroun a ill do the Best i retorted displaying a bit of unexpected after one could take so from a staff ser and a Supply sergeant at Tell a said a Little less belligerently after the privates surprising display of go on Over to the orderly room and go on sick gotta have a written request from the medical officer before i can Issue a an extra after sick Fletcher returned to the Supply room with a typed note which in part it is recommended that Joseph an be issued an additional Blanket because signed Frank Owens glanced at the note and then threw the private a sign this memorandum he sure too bad were outa Nice warm blondes that night Owens Snow plodded from the Post theater to his he braced his body against the icy arriving at his bar he quickly shed his clothes Down to his Long underwear and then he slipped on a heavy sitting on the Edge of his he put on a pair of heavy gym then he Slid into his bunk As he muttered its cold snuggling under four the Supply sergeant drifted off to Ingwood Shelby Friedman Schmaltz like Lucid cinematographic the memory of you when we first met comes Back to me the Way your hair was your careless your eyes of Malori though you were Only i have not yet been Able to forget your slotted skirt and Blouse in exciting As an acrobat by now your ego should be but just because of All the things Ive said dont get too Light a heart or big a head remember that the Only reason i have not forgotten you in any Way is that i merely met you fort Leonard Summers Iamb Stew again Frank for j and i wish youd stay away from my boy Friendl Anthony fort Leonard