European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 handwriting on the Wall there Are some things i dont like about the i know full Well that you will Hoot at ale and Call me a liar and Prev Aricatar and not believe me at but i feel i must confess to that improbable As it does now that Ive got that off my Chest leaving Only a fatigue shirt and some Woolen underwear Between me and the Winter wind i can go ahead and Tell you about some of the things i i dont care for cartoons about signing state ments of dont like to carry a pack and a i despise physical and i do not rave with Joy at the mention of but i have two main pet the army has taught me to eat too in the word fast is As big an understatement As the word in the my first sergeant is a since entering the armed forces i have Learned to devour food with the Speed of with a quickness and a rapidity if transformed to my would enable me to run a 23second no longer can i Dally round the groaning spicing the food with Light wit and heavy now i must make like a steam excavating the food from tray to Gullet with a celerity matched Only by the russian and while this has played havoc with my digestive tract a play similar in formation to the 6221 defense it has caused me Only a fraction of the grief that i get from posters and in sure you Are aware of these blatant Mani Estoes in three and four colors which adorn the Walls of Day orderly rooms and you like a picture of an ape with the dont let lice make a Monkey out of every the Point of this blowup follows imme i have seen these displays so and the slogans Are so that they have wormed themselves into my speech and form an integral part of my when an officer asks me a i find that i Stoke choke it from the conservation focal sometimes i Salute and dont abuse youll have to use it  my series instead of thinking about my i dream about Margie in the yellow pyjamas and the postwar world and War i even think in terms of i catch my self to that Fine old nothing could be finer than to have a helmet liner in the i turn on the radio and the to my no no no no no sir its i went to the medics but they classified me full i talked to the who was very when he stepped out of the room for a i sneaked a look at his notes and they contributions for this Page should be addressed to the Post the army 205 East 42d new York i see a White card with the letters to on George Dyersburg we rent notes at there was a drawing of Waves and spars and the caption Bubble showed they were singing the army made a Man out of a Man out of my friends shun me and i hate but i cant break the i Wake up at night and did anyone Ever think of calling oct the Gold bar none ranch All my mental pictures Are in the form of like the picture of the typical raw Cap Straw Between the the big letters screaming half an oaf is better than water waste Means water not the enemy but Trench i Tell its got me right while i still retain a toehold on my i am on a Mon outsize it will have an of Back ground and there will be just three objects in the they will be a Collar and a Collar and a Belt All will be filthy and As Dull As a Reading of the articles of the caption that Here it is get off your polish Camp Stanley Marculis dont you know youre not allowed to thumb rides sgt a you never know Harry Chesty was hed a whole lot rather Knock you Down than look at the postman had a hard time tagging Harry with greetings from Harry was travelling with the unkempt Brothers shows and the shows existed by travelling Harry did a strongman act and most people thought it was pretty Young sadists from the audience were permitted to drive Railroad spikes into his he bounced manhole covers edgewise off his he carried a four door Sedan across the when he didst have any Gas on the he climaxed the act by eat ing a rare assortment of goldfish sanitary plumbers equipment and a crosscut when Harry entered Camp Bandon he gave the medics a rough hour or for one he got a huge Boot out of jerking away so that four tetanus Needles broke off in his he laughed for one night after completing a 30mile hike through heavy Harry took off for a dance in a town about 20 Miles from he missed the last bus so he had to leg he dog trotted so he  be late for Harry got into a lot of fights and broke a num Ber of he was so Tough everyone thought he was headed for a clerks Job in the funny thing about it he Harry had a Young brother named puny who was puny was hunched Over and screwed up from working in an and nobody thought he would get into the but he passed his physical while taking Basic puny dropped out on almost every hike and was a regular Patron of the sick puny Chesty seemed to be such a poor bet for the infantry that everyone thought he was headed right for an assignment with the infantry As a the funny thing about it he he also was assigned to desk work at just like his so you never know in the that what we always what 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