European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By t Ben Amar Boyd knew exactly what he was going to do about this particular letter from Bill he checked through his imagination for recriminations that might possibly come but he  conceive of he he was doing exactly what a machine would a machine would have Dis covered no discrepancy and therefore  have corrected As a the lieutenant he was definitely a he was a human photoelectric cell whose function was to see everything and re member an endless series of Dull and Laboured letters came Down an Assembly line to passed across a photoelectric Ray in his mind and if there was no Censo Rable military in formation hidden in moved on Down the line and even the business of spotting forbidden information had become routine and mechanical by this they were awkward and these attempts to beat the machine that was the and the lieutenant knew them Headon plunge that began with Xyz a a guck or some thing like that the one where the initial letters of paragraphs spelled out a word the simple minded method of spelling a word backward Al he had to the fellow who had strap on his French Toast almost got the wretched sentence Structure that invariably marked a letter As except As minor affronts to his these things never bothered this Bill Ello business was an altogether Dif Ferent it offended his sense of strictly it was none of his damned there was nothing Censo Rable in any of the and he didst know Bill Ellow from the business of this particular was allows he the lieutenant decided with a certain warm was Only a Boyd haunt read Many of allows laboriously scrawled letters before he decided that the Man was a his letters always began with dear Mary or Dearest but from there on you never knew what to one letter might be full of blows endearments the next might suddenly break out into a a the Man was then one Day there happened to be two letters to and the whole thing was the lieutenant Felt a Little foolish for not having Fig ured it out he noticed for the first time that the addresses were different that there were two the bad tempered letters always be Gan with dear Mary and were addressed to Mary the Dearest Mary letters were a different Boyd tried to feel tolerant about the whole the Guy had made an unhappy he told himself lots of people made unhappy but the Broad View  wearily but he read and sealed and countersigned letter after letter from Ellow to the two dear and there was no military information in the but they told a lot about Bill they showed him up for a wrong Guy from a Way one Day the letter to Ellow read in sending Back the i Haven got room for them As the co says get rid of All personal one of the pictures showed a neat a to headed kid pulling at each she was laughing at the on the Back of the picture it just for Bill May in the same letter Ellow asked her for 20 in he and just cant make see if you cant get it from your the next Days letter was to the other Ellow was in a reminiscent recalling some stolen when the wife thought i was at the there was and All of it was intimate and this unlike the Little Blond was no it Ellow had enclosed in her letter a Money order that you asked not Honey but the Best i can do at this Boyd tried to get the whole degrading Busi Ness off his but he found it it would have been easier if he could have talked to someone about but he was pledged to a censors so even that was allows duplicity grew with each letter he and the lieutenant grew hotter and hotter under the col Lar As each new letter came a week ago there had been an especially revolting letter from Ellow to his thanks Hon for the although it is not near i got More expenses than you realize what with the allotment being taken out and maybe you could hit the old Man so Davey had Hope the Hospital Bill want so big that youre broke As i absolutely cant help you you know there was not another word about the Boyd gritted his Teeth and went outside to breathe fresh that was How the matter had stood until sick As he was of Reading the lieutenant had picked up the latest from Ellow and begun Reading it with his usual Dearest it am enclosing Money order for 35 you know who finally came thru with another did i sweat that one dont see How i could of sent you anything this month without i really made a killing last Nite with that i was really her old Man Hast got anything to do with his Money and i know what in going to do with i saw the swell est Little article for lace lace ail the Way Down the front the Way we like it was in a place off the main and they probably had it hid so Jerry  find anyway today i went Down and got this Negle Jay As they Call wait till you see when you get it i want to get a full length picture taken with you filling it and baby How youll fill it i can see you in it i got a space All saved for it when you Send baby what a pinup leave a Little leg out Honey and kind of half close your i want to hear these Guys Boyd stopped read he refolded the letter in its original stuck it Back into the sealed it and signed the lower lefthand it was then that he saw allows absentminded slip up and knew that the whole disgusting Busi Ness would soon be Boyd took another fond look at the envelope and sighed happily As he Laid it in the Box with the other outgoing it was addressed to Mary off limits k tit Kmoch she says her Mother wont let her 90 out with i was a fool to leave the Pacific