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Created page with "no 15<br /> jan 25 dear mother, dad and sis received a v-mail letter from you just now — dated Jan. 12. This is very much better than air mails, which have been taking between 25 and 30 days to get here. V-mails can't contain very much, but the great difference in time makes them worthwhile. our spirits have been all hopped up again, although nothing concrete has happened. We are scheduled to move up along the line — but to remain in new guinea. Presumably, we wil..." |
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our spirits have been all hopped up again, although nothing concrete has happened. We are scheduled to move up along the line — but to remain in new guinea. Presumably, we will finally open a hospital at this new place. But the experience of the past months cautions me not to get excited until the thing is actually done. We may sit around for months at the new base before anything happens. | our spirits have been all hopped up again, although nothing concrete has happened. We are scheduled to move up along the line — but to remain in new guinea. Presumably, we will finally open a hospital at this new place. But the experience of the past months cautions me not to get excited until the thing is actually done. We may sit around for months at the new base before anything happens. | ||
I'm a little tired, to say the least, of the constant moving about from place to place. With materials — lumber, nails, etc, etc., — relatively scarce wherever one goes — and with the fact that one must make everything for himself — it takes a long time to get comfortable and to make even a modicum of conveniences and neatness in one's surroundings. Just when I've about made myself cozy in one place, I'm off to the next. I'd like to | |||
Revision as of 01:10, 2 February 2023
no 15
jan 25
dear mother, dad and sis
received a v-mail letter from you just now — dated Jan. 12. This is very much better than air mails, which have been taking between 25 and 30 days to get here. V-mails can't contain very much, but the great difference in time makes them worthwhile.
our spirits have been all hopped up again, although nothing concrete has happened. We are scheduled to move up along the line — but to remain in new guinea. Presumably, we will finally open a hospital at this new place. But the experience of the past months cautions me not to get excited until the thing is actually done. We may sit around for months at the new base before anything happens.
I'm a little tired, to say the least, of the constant moving about from place to place. With materials — lumber, nails, etc, etc., — relatively scarce wherever one goes — and with the fact that one must make everything for himself — it takes a long time to get comfortable and to make even a modicum of conveniences and neatness in one's surroundings. Just when I've about made myself cozy in one place, I'm off to the next. I'd like to