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Laura Davis letters to her husband Lloyd Davis, January-March 1943

1943-01-18 Laura Davis to Lloyd Davis Page 4

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get [assigned?] out, that I can see you again. In other words its a U.S. camp I hope you still stay in, and that I can go to it as soon as we know where. I've done fine being tough. It is your caring that makes it possible for me to be pretty tough. That no account Walbrand on the Ex-Service Board for relief was telling about a Jew selectee from C.R. who cried a little at the recent send-off. I could of crowned him as he was scorning it and making fun of him. I told him I saw a son of a gun gentile from Iowa [Marine?] crying at the only send-off I ever went to! He scarcely believed me. (I think, as far as our office goes, it would be better for the country for him to enlist in the war too. I don't think he is fifty and he is single and so full of military wisdom!) Sissy soldiers are no good,  but anyone who can't think of any thing but criticism for a guy who maybe gets an acute case of blues doesn't seem to know to much.

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4 get [assigned?] out, that I can see you again. In other words its a U.S. camp I hope you still stay in, and that I can go to it as soon as we know where. I've done fine being tough. It is your caring that makes it possible for me to be pretty tough. That no account Walbrand on the Ex-Service Board for relief was telling about a Jew selectee from C.R. who cried a little at the recent send-off. I could of crowned him as he was scorning it and making fun of him. I told him I saw a son of a gun gentile from Iowa [Marine?] crying at the only send-off I ever went to! He scarcely believed me. (I think, as far as our office goes, it would be better for the country for him to enlist in the war too. I don't think he is fifty and he is single and so full of military wisdom!) Sissy soldiers are no good, but anyone who can't think of any thing but criticism for a guy who maybe gets an acute case of blues doesn't seem to know to much.