October 19, 1945

Munich, Germany

October 19, 1945

Dear Mother & all,

            I wrote one letter to you this morning but I thought I would write again. The mail just came in and I had a package from you with all the hair-oil, shaving cream – and so on in it. Thanks a lot. I am fixed up to go to New York now.

            I have been getting my bed roll and gun together. I am going out in the country deer hunting this evening and stay all night – coming back in the morning. I am going about ten or 15 miles out of the city where the prisoners have been cutting wood, some of the boys have seen deer there.  A couple of our boys has to go out there every evening and stay around there all night and guard the wood cutting tools after they take the prisoners back in. It will be good to get out of camp here and break the monopoly around here. When I am off duty I do just about what I please. Wish you were going with me Dad, I would show you how to kill these deer over here. Hell it’s as easy as shooting quail with a shot gun with these army rifles we have.

            The boys are holding a party tonight. Our captain is leaving for home and they are having a party for him before he goes. Well thanks again for the nice things. Oh yes, there is going to be a rodeo here in Munich this Saturday and Sunday I’ll bet it will be a little dandy. Well I’ll write and tell you how the hunt turns out.

Love to all,
Your son,
Max

(In this letter was included this hand written joke in another person’s writing besides Max)

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A woman about seven months pregnant got on a street car and sat down. She noticed a man opposite smiling. Being humiliated she moved to another seat. This time his smile turned into a grin. She changed her seat again and he seemed still more amused and when on the fourth change he bursts out laughing she had him arrested.

The case came in my court and the judge asked him if he had anything to say. “Well” he replied, it was like this your Honor, when the lady came in I could not help noticing her condition. She sat under the sign reading “Gold Dust twins are coming” so I had to smile to myself. Then she sat under a sign “use Sloan Liniment to reduce that swelling!” I could hardly hold myself. The fourth time she moved and sat below “Good Year Rubber would have prevented this accident.” I laughed out loud.

“The case dismissed” said the judge.