I really appreciate your writing very much, but I don\’t have much spare time any more. I have to start out this letter by apologizing for not having answered your last two letters (June 28th and July 3rd) until now. I hope you have a nice vacation and catch plenty of fish. Tell your wife I said hello and congratulations on putting up with you for five years. We are going to have to fallout for chow in a few minutes so will close for now. Glad to hear you are still interesting in going into business for yourself. I hope you and Bill are having a better time with the obsolete stock on the M-4 than we did on the T-70. I haven\’t put on any excess weight and do not want to. Out beer ration never seems to be enough, though I suppose that\’s natural enough. Things are pretty good here where I am at present. It still seems a funny to know I have actually seen Corregidor, Batan, Manila, and am half a world away from home. The weather for the most part has been a lot better than we expect for which we are thankful. I am still here on Luzon in the Philippine. I am sorry to say I didn\’t get out of camp during the very short time I was on the West Coast. Then to I had to stand through most of them and for about an hour and a half before they started in order to have a place where I could see, and I still enjoyed them. This isn\’t to bad an average expected I had seen all except one before. I have only seen seven movies since I was home on fourlough. You might tell Red Cooper I haven\’t got any steaks for breakfast out this man\’s Army yet. I would still like to be back there eating hot dogs though. By the way we had steak for dinner the day I received your letter. Well you should be doing better than hot dogs this winter. The nearest thing we have o cows here that I have seen are water buffalo. So you are in the cattle raising business now. here are fellows over her who could call you son and be about right. Its nice to know your boys are coming along so well, and congratulations on your fifth wedding anniversary. I though Don might be related to them, but it turned out he wasn\’t. Some friends of mine up North have the same name. It is to bad he got caught just two moths before he was thirty. I hadn\’t written you before that because I didn\’t know how you had come out with the Army. The answer to the V-mail letter is already on the way to you. i fell pretty bad about the situation at home at times but there is damn little I can do about it except hope this thing won\’t last to long. I am glad to be able to say my father seems to be doing pretty well at present. Fortunately I received a letter from my father with air-mail stamps enclosed. They are pretty hard to get here at present. The thing of it is I was completely out of air-mail stamps. I don\’t think this situation will last for long though. At present we have more time to ourselves than at any time since I have been in the Army. I was a little worried how I was going to answer it. Received your swell letter of May 31st yesterday. I am running a little late on time and I want to try to answer Jack\’s letter so will close for now. One centavo is worth one half an American penny one pesos is worth fifty cents, etc. This money is (American issue which is good that is) exchange for ours at a ration of two to one. The money here runs as follows: one, five, ten, twenty and fifty centavos, then one, two, five, etc. This money is worthless now the Americans have taken over, but it makes nice souvenirs. While there I bought some Jap occupation currency from some little Phlip kids at a cigarette per bill. We play euchre here, but since I had to teach most of the fellows I play with how to play it it is still pretty slow going.īy the way we have some rain out here too. You ought to have a couple of pretty fine fellows there before long. I am glad to hear your wife and the boys are OK. I hope this won\’t mean Jack Irving will have to go to the Army. he says things are slowing down at the Tank Plant. I received a letter from Jack the day after I received yours. I asked at that time how his brother came out. I am glad to hear Roy\’s brother is all right. It is not so bad but its certainly not like home. I am glad you didn\’t have to go to the Army. Yours was the first letter I received here and I was very glad to get it. I am now somewhere on Luzon Island in the Philippines. But many of his friends at the plant were. Legally blind in one eye and supporting a wife and two boys, he was not called for service. During WWII my father-in-law Herman Bekofske worked in the Grand Blanc, MI Buick \”tank plant\”.
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