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Carroll Steinbeck letters to his parents, September-October 1943

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 2

I’m almost afraid to hope. For this reason I don’t know what to tell you about coming out to Calif. Next week we start a two week bivouac so those two are out. The week after that we don’t do much and that ends our basic. It would seem foolish to come out just to see me but you might want the trip and possibly we could go home together if I would get a furlough. I don’t mean it would be foolish to see me but I I got get there to see you. If you want to take a sweet vacation to come out and see me just to play safe it would be sweet but you won’t have much time to do it in. Let me know as soon as you can. I wish I could tell you for sure about the five days then we would have something to go on but the army doesn’t know itself yet. Enough for this, I’ll get down to tell you what I’ve been doing.

Four of us went to a town about like Washington over the weekend. Went swimming and to a U.S.O. dance. It was more or less a rest

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I’m almost afraid to hope. For this reason I don’t know what to tell you about coming out to Calif. Next week we start a two week bivouac so those two are out. The week after that we don’t do much and that ends our basic. It would seem foolish to come out just to see me but you might want the trip and possibly we could go home together if I would get a furlough. I don’t mean it would be foolish to see me but I I got get there to see you. If you want to take a sweet vacation to come out and see me just to play safe it would be sweet but you won’t have much time to do it in. Let me know as soon as you can. I wish I could tell you for sure about the five days then we would have something to go on but the army doesn’t know itself yet. Enough for this, I’ll get down to tell you what I’ve been doing. Four of us went to a town about like Washington over the weekend. Went swimming and to a U.S.O. dance. It was more or less a rest