European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank army playmate dependent Mother dear yank i am getting out of the army very after i take a Short vacation i plan to go to school under Bill of i know All about the tuition and the amount of schooling i am entitled to but i am not Clear on the subsistence As i get it a vet gets a month while going to All Well and i have a dependent Mother and am not can i claim her As a and get the extra in subsistence Money or Are Only wives and children dependents under the i Bill Guam of team act Tunson you will be entitled to the extra o month paid to veterans who have the veterans administration has ruled that parents As Well As wives and children will be considered dependents so for As the subsistence allowance is spars allotment dear yank when i came out Here Over a year and a half ago i didst realize that my one and Only would turn out to be a firs class heres the spot in in i took out a family allotment for my wife when i was at which time she was a about six months after i was sent to the aleutians she joined the she wrote me telling me to cancel the allotment As she  need it any More and  get it anyway As was supported by the so i had the company clerk get permission from head quarters to cancel the from then until january i Drew my full in january i was redlined and received no no one seemed to know the reason Why until head quarters gave us the dope my wife had written to the Odb and requested that the allotment be renewed without a word to from the or or anyone the allotment was and u top it the government gave her a Check for 11 months Back allotment which i have to make Good to the extent of a in other my wife gets a room and Board from the government and i get a great big a month until the Back allot ment is paid she spends All the Money run Ning around and when i asked her for some 16 whats your problem letters to this department should writers full serial number and military Money and told her to save the she told me what i could do what i want to know is 1 can they renew an allotment without my con sent and without even telling me 2 is she entitled to part of my pay As Well As her pay from the government 3 can i get an allotment out of her there has been some scuttlebutt that women in service can make out an is that True 4 the government supports her Why should i have to it looks like you got o raw Deal but there is nothing much you can do about your wife is entitled to an allotment whether she is in service or a wife does not need her husbands consent to get an when your wife applied for the allotment the Odb should have notified your orderly room which in turn should have told you about it looks like somebody fumbled the while it is True that women in service con make our o family1 allotment to their such allotments Are Only approved where the husband is chiefly dependent upon the wife for his since you Are in service you Haven got much Chance of Dom ing that you Ore chiefly dependent upon Job rights dear under the i Bill of rights there is a clause stating a Man in the service must be employed his former employer for a period of 90 Days after he leaves the i stayed away from my Job for a period of 30 Days in order to get into the it was the Only Way i could Volunteer for induction and be sure of getting in because my Job was considered essential at that what i want to know is whether my former employer can turn me Down when i get out of service or whether he must give me my Job fou Rifis Sammiy sic he can turn you since you were not employed at the time you entered the service you Ore not entitled to the reemployment benefits of the selective service your information about a veterans right to his old Job is completely the selective service Low not the i Bill of rights provides that honorable discharged veterans must be reemployed at their old jobs for o run year if they apply for their old jobs within 90 Days after Only those veterans who were actually employed when they entered the service get this those who left their jobs of their own no matter what the Ore out of civil service dear yank i am a civil service employee with Over four years of military service to my is it True that 1 will get credit for that period of time toward within Grade salary increases is it also True that these increases Are now granted after Only one year instead of every 18 months both your statements Are civil service employees on military duty Are entitled to count the time spent on Active duty towards the time required for within Grade salary a recent Law Cut the time period from 18 months to one year f in Ivy w anxiety in the Sands of foreign lands i draw my name in Forwith the eve changing tides the Sands Are smoothed i Only Hope that tide of time works As the tide of sea that from foreign lands erased is every Trace of in these lands across the sea no part of me shall stay i want to take Home again just what i took Thomas Cou a j Pacific crazy like a Fox i dont believe in Hants and in not ignorant neither because i went to Walnut consolidated and got through the fifth but when i Tell How come me to be Back in Walnut they just shake their Heads and look at me sort of sad if i was soft in the that army Doc what told me to go Home and forget the War says i we rent no crazier a that Good enough for me any ways just because you asked ill Tell you How come i aint Back in the Philippines but in warning wont believe me that last Day Over yonder is sort of balled somehow or other the Philippines turns into i dont know it just the japs turns into that Banyan Creek turns into the to then on top of Allna Poleon Bonaparte gives me a that that a purple one my Sarge dumps me out of his jeep one morn ing before he spots me on a rickety old Bridge and told me not to let no vehicles come across until the engineers fix it so i bums a package of fags from him and he gives me Jap fags cause he dont have no american cigarettes i was sitting there smok ing away when i get a twist in my now that aint surprising because i it a can of Corn Willie and some soy crackers after i come on duty so i smokes another fag and pretty soon the pain goes first thing i snowed some one taps me on the shoulder and How goes the Soldier i kind of jumped because he snuck up on me sort of soft but i snowed him right he was Napoleon of course he was togged out right i at All but just like picture in my old history he wore a crosswise Long coat and he introduced him self polite he saw right off that i was a smart least i reckon he did because he started telling me about the tactical he was he made me understand it a lot better than my co Ever he says to look at yonder see the Flash of my Cannon i looks mighty close and pretty soon i see flashes behind the just like heat Light now look Over he told see the lombards up on the slopes sure behind the rocks and Trees i could make out them lombards even if it was kind of dim see Over Here to my says see How general Desai brings up my reserves sure As Over where the Rice paddies was there seems to be a whole army of says Here is our my Cannon shall Force the lombards from the Heights to this to River you shall destroy the Bridge and Cut off their then will general Desai attack from the flank while you and i will make a frontal appears to be a sensible your i spoken like a he comes now us make haste Dawn comes swiftly and already the lombards Are in so i get under the Budge and i tie a grenade to each they was pretty then i pull the pins and run like hell for a the grenades goes off and when i look up i see the whole Bridge Cave into the that when yank tote army weekly september 1945 Napoleon helps me out of the Crater Hole and pins this Here medal on my then we hear a crashing in the banana the yells now my Brave we shall destroy the so he draws his sword and salutes me with i gits my Machete out and salutes him just like the colonel used to do on the Parade then we both charges Down the cutting off italian Heads like they was that All i recollect about the Battle until i woke up on the boat heading for after we gets to California they put me in a general the docs keeps hitting me on the knee with a Little Hammer and asking me the medal and the finally they decide to discharge the Day before i was sent Home this were a major me in for a he says to do you know what dementia Pra Cox is i told its sort of like Battle aint it something of the he now think you read any books on the life of Napoleon lately no i says to i cant read that but i recollect seeing a picture show about him Back in and do you remember the picture show vividly i kind of liked me and Napoleon is a lot both of us is Short and got bad then the Doc Are you sure you ate nothing unusual the Day before Napoleon visited you or maybe you found some liquor no i Only ate a can of Corn Willie and a couple of nothing else the major Doc think hard Well i do recollect drinking a couple of canteens of and then of course i smoked them Jap japanese cigarettes that Doc jumped like he was then he runs into the next pretty soon he comes Back toting a note he pointed to a picture in the Book and asks did the japanese cigarettes come in a pack age like this one i says to just like that it had three Black spots on the pack like this Oner then the major Doc sits Back and laughs and tears comes to his matter sir i i was getting he looks me right smack in the eyes and let me req of you an article from a clipping taken out of a medical then after he wipes the tears from his eyes he reads me the it has been necessary to caution troops in Pacific theater to refrain from smoking the Brand of japanese cigarettes illustrated these cigarettes contain the unwary Sampler will suffer severe intestinal disorders and frequently the smoker is subject to hallucinations approaching the symptoms of delirium Kremens and in some cases dementia now he says to do you under stand what i have just read most of it i he you Are about to be Dis i imagine that i could do something about i after two years overseas is a Long but i want you to under stand that if you Are crazy at you Are crazy like a then he winks at Shook hands and says that medal there i showed it to the sheriff Here in he wrote a letter and found out that it was a medal Given by Napoleon to his Spanish they copied it and gave it out again for their soldiers in foreign i told you youre starting to shake your Ompoc Page 17