Munich, Germany
September 14, 1945
Dear Mother, Dad, &
Girls,
I am on duty in our battery office now as charge of
quarters and am about to go nuts for something to do so I will try to beat off
a letter or two. This is an American typewriter and I have a little trouble
hitting the right keys cause I am used to using a German machine.
I had a letter from you last night and a package right
before last. Thanks for all the things I can use them, but Mama, there isn’t
any use for you to send me any kind of clothes like socks, or shorts cause I
can get them from our supply sergeant. Anytime I need them. All you need send
is maybe once in a while some hankies or like the sweat-shirts. I figure that
as long as I am in this army, that I might as well get every damn thing out of
them as I can so there isn’t any use wasting money on things when I can get
them free and all I want here anytime. You will never hear me say anything
about not sending the cookies though. Ha I don’t care if you don’t ever stop
sending them cause I never get tired of eating those oat-meal cookies. Those melons
you were talking about in your letter makes me hungry for some. I don’t’ think
these damn people over here knows how to raise anything else on their farms
besides hay and potatoes – that is about all you see.
I had a letter from Mrs. Whitaker last night too. Boy,
I’m telling you, when I get a letter from her, there isn’t nothing that I
don’t know about the happenings from her girl out in New Mexico to Flagstaff
and on out in Oklahoma where Julia has been with her husband. I know all about
all the babies and kids up and down the valley too, just which ones are sick or
cry the most and so on. She only writes little short ten or twelve page letters
each time and it takes me a good hour to read them but I get quite a kick out
of them.
I got all the boys just where
I want them now while I am on duty here in the office. I am the one that gives
out the passes into town. I remember when I was back in basic training and had
to stand in line for a pass and just hope that I got it when I got up to the
office. I used to just hope and pray that I could hive out the passes and have
some of the other wise guys come in for one.
That was too bad about Wayne Bradshaw. I didn’t even know
that his sister Georgia was married let alone ready to have a baby. Rosalie was
telling me about Harold and Naomi getting married. I wonder what they are going
to do about their difference in religion? Naomi belongs to the “Church of
Christ.” I guess she will change to the LDS church though.
Say, it is about time to go deer hunting again isn’t it?
Have you been able to get any shells for the German rifle that I sent Dad? I
will try to make up a little package of something in the next day or two and
smuggle in a shell or two for that gun, but it might not get through if it is
opened somewhere along the way. I can
get it in the mail and by the censor here alright but I don’t know about any
place else. I’ll take the chance anyway. I would like to be there to hunt with
you this year Dad, but I guess I will have to do all of my hunting over here if
I do any. I will be there to hunt with you next year for sure. Well I will stop
for this time and thanks again for the package Mama.
Love to all,
Your son,Max
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