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FRANCE
DECEMBER
Dear Morn & All, ■ • .
You can't imagine how glad
I wr.s to get your letter'this eve
ning. Moil sure is scarce these
days. Seems like ages between each
letter, Bou, I'd give anything to
be hnme for Christmas,I'd give any
thing to get home just for a little
while, I know what you mean about
this "writing business,"
Here it is pretty near the end
of another year. How time flies!
Th‘ t is, in one way it does. Time
s ms' to take on two different
phases. The days are slow, dragging
by, at a snail's pace. After supper
yc” come in & cuss & try to find
sc -thing to do till about 10
o'clock so you can go to bed, but
the weeks & months seem to flji.Then
you think about all that time wast
ed when it could be spent at home*.
Onxy it's worse than wasting time
because not only is construction at
a standstill--it is actually moving
backwards. If all the energy and
time and money (but money is a mino:
matter) used to fight a war could
br out to use in time of peace for
b *-tering the countries of the
w< rid & developing trade, it would
sure be a marvfelous achievement.
But there's always just enough
crack pots left to make it miperabL
for everybody, „ '
’.Ye got our weekly rations,(./-Vi
(weekly?; They usually come about
once every 2 months) th;is. c.ven‘ng.
We got 5.packs of cigarettes, 2
rarer blades., ft pkg. spearmint &• 3
Milkyways. I give my cigar'ett s> 6
Holt & Cessna 6c th.ey argue fort If '
an hour over who gets three & wl
gets two packages.
We got a bunch of magazines a
terdfty, they're oil ’October iss s, 1
but they're-new to me. First Re- er's
Digest I've read in a long time.
Cessna & I received the Air dal
today (Dec. 17) for whot we've < ne
so far toward winning the war.
We had sort of ceiling made r -t
of scrap lumber 6c tar paper, but the
wind started blowing' prett; har< 5c
it knocked the none too s lid c; ’l".
lng down & almost blew the tent
down.
Played a game of chess t -nite &
got beat pretty bed. That's all for
now., Kprry Xmas to all.
All tay love, Dale
P.S. It's still muddy.
Lt.' Dale R. Sandyik 6-770450
313th Ftr.Sqdn. 50th Ftr. Grp,
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