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Carroll Steinbeck letters to his parents, November-December 1943

Carroll Steinbeck to Alfred and Vira Steinbeck Page 3

Yesterday was just an every day Sat. We had a big [insjuction?] in the afternoon then we were off at 4:30. When over the the SHE house then until 7:00 working around. Came back and got ready to go out. There was a WAC [carven?] show here. It was darned good. It was a few wac's and some air cargo guys. Went to a dance after that until 12:00. At the dance the played "Happy Birthday" for me. One of the fellows in the band is a good friend of mine and some of my gang went up and told him to have it played. The darned fools sang and embarrassed me to death. Pretty nice of them anyway.
The weather took a sudden change the other day. It snowed around 6 inches. The sun is always shinning though and it is really nice out.
Last night after we came in from the dance, all the SAE's and pledges went over to the house. We did some paddling and made them clean up the house. A bunch of the alumni are

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Yesterday was just an every day Sat. We had a big [insjuction?] in the afternoon then we were off at 4:30. When over the the SHE house then until 7:00 working around. Came back and got ready to go out. There was a WAC [carven?] show here. It was darned good. It was a few wac's and some air cargo guys. Went to a dance after that until 12:00. At the dance the played "Happy Birthday" for me. One of the fellows in the band is a good friend of mine and some of my gang went up and told him to have it played. The darned fools sang and embarrassed me to death. Pretty nice of them anyway. The weather took a sudden change the other day. It snowed around 6 inches. The sun is always shinning though and it is really nice out. Last night after we came in from the dance, all the SAE's and pledges went over to the house. We did some paddling and made them clean up the house. A bunch of the alumni are