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• 19:37, 30 September 2025 Paul talk contribs created page .MTU.Mzk (Created page with "I could descend into the dank, labrynthian darkness of the subway---- and be pushed into a train by the milling, mauling, hurrying crowds --- and be crushed and crammed among them--- uncertainly holding on to a strap --- vainly trying to read the morning paper, while the people coughed in my face and chewed gum in my ear. I wish I could hear the sounds of the trains as they roared through the black caverns-- and be swayed and toppled when they came to a screetching halt...")
• 19:16, 30 September 2025 Paul talk contribs created page .MTU.Mzg (Created page with "jan 18 no 14 dear mother, dad and sis The other day I had a little business to attend to at a nearby hospital. The hospital is situated a few miles away from the dispensary, and further inland. To avoid being lonely on the journey, I took a jeep along for company and we both went rattling merrily on our way. Soon, we were laboriously climbing upwards among the craggy hills, along the steep, winding, treacherous new guinea roads. Up and up we went, and as we ascended t...")
• 13:38, 2 February 2023 Sam talk contribs created page .MTQ.Mzc (Created page with "plasma, blood and sulfonimide therapy, and the institution of surgical units working right up behind the lines, give the casualty a wonderful chance of pulling through. Modern warfare does kill more men outright on the battlefield than ever before --- but of those who manage to survive the first hours and can get into the handsof the medical department -- only 3-4% die. from the fact that we are not being given a hospital, I suspect that we won't remain here after all....")
• 13:30, 2 February 2023 Sam talk contribs created page .MTQ.MzY (Created page with "#13 Jan 13, 1944 dear mother, dad andsis No!s 24 (12/19) and 26 (12/24) and a letter dated the 27th all arrived today. There were newsy and good to get. There are always long waiting periods with no mail-- and then a batch comes at once. It seems that v-mails sent from home here arrive somewhat faster than the air letters. They're not nearly so gratifying since they are so short, but if you'd send one every once in a while it might help to fill in the empty days when n...")
• 01:25, 2 February 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTY.NDE (Created page with "As for post war employment ideas — I'm concentrating all though on what I'm going to do with myself. The Murray Dingell Bill — providing, in effect, for the socialization of medicine in the country — is now before congress and is very likely to pass. That makes it more imperative than ever that I take up a specialty if I hope to make any progress in medicine. Therefore, I'll have to take about three years of advanced training — postgraduate school and residencies...")
• 01:07, 2 February 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTY.NDA (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...")
• 02:19, 31 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTE.MzE (Created page with "Nothing else of note is taking place. After the novelties and the adjustments of the first couple of weeks are over — there is nothing left for us to do but sit around here in a sort of semi-uselessness for the next year or so — and wait for the war to end. I spend practically the whole day in reading — a pleasant enough occupation at that. Now I'll have to interrupt my reading every few minutes to put merchurochrome on pimples and then go back to the book again....")
• 02:05, 31 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTE.MzA (Created page with "Dear mother, dad and sis I've been holding off for the last few days in hope of receiving a letter from you. But our mail service is so disrupted by the constant moving about, that I received no mail from you last week. The vicissitudes of army life are upon me once again. Local living circumstances have been improving steadily recently. The officers finally have a roughshod table to eat on and are being served in a porcelainware service available to us for that purpos...")
• 00:22, 30 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTA.Mjk (Created page with "tent absently watching the rushing waves break at out feet — or looking reflectively out to sea until out against the horizon misty visions of the west coast of America rise slowly into the clouds. The climate in new guinea is, as you expect, not very salubrious. It is always extremely damp and it rains at least once very day during the dry season. Further inland it gets extremely hot but in out spot on the shore it has been so far quite tolerable. There is always s c...")
• 00:08, 30 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTA.Mjg (Created page with "at any time. We have, as I told you, cots, airmattresses and pillows, our lamp, chairs and the results of our own handiwork— i,e, a few lopsided tables and benches and bars across the tent pole for hanging our clothes, putting away odds and ends and writing. Our kitchen is a tent with a few gasoline ranges inside and the usual collection of pots and pans that go with the army unit. the ranges are rather complicaated affairs but they do everything — roast, boil, fry...")
• 18:14, 29 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MTA.Mjc (Created page with "dear mother dad and sis my typewriter is my own again at last. It came the traumatic way — having been dumped deep into the hold of a ship, fished out with a crane and bouned downon a warf, thrown into a warehouse, lost, recovered again, dropped into another hold dragged out once more — but finally fell to my anxious arms, unbroken and as capable as ever. It is ready now to tell whatever story could be gleaned from so few days abidance in the tropics. we are locate...")
• 23:40, 27 January 2023 Sam talk contribs created page .Nw.MTg (Created page with "it's lying around somewhere. There is no immediate hurry for them. especially if you intend first to send the ones I asked for originally. These can wait for the following month. In the meantime, may I suggest something for your own entertainment at this time. I recently came across a volume by Margaret Mead (she works for the museum of natural history) entitled "Sex and Temper-cent in Three Primate Societies". I know that it is available at the 96th st public library....")
• 23:30, 27 January 2023 Sam talk contribs created page .Nw.MTc (Created page with "coolness of a local hardware store. These places hold a strong, compelling fascination for me; I just can't resist them. I come away laden to the end point of my strength with nails and screws, with corrugated fasteners and hinges and hammer and pliers and even an aladdin (kerosine) [ ]. Like the great Thoreau, I shall go forth into the last recesses of nature and build my own world about me. The New York Times came today. Oct. 10 issue, a little antiquated perhaps, bu...")
• 23:23, 27 January 2023 Sam talk contribs created page .Nw.MTY (Created page with "Nov 24 no#3 Dear mother dad and sis: No word from you this week. But the vicissitudes of the mail are the heralding notes sounding forth impending vistas to open on the already broad expanse of experience that floods a young man unpredictable life. My diary is no more remarkable than ever. Hale & heart, I still [ ] the earth, for all the fact that my aim is somewhat [ ] from the initial infection of cholera vaccine. I'm also on prophylactic atabrine medication but tha...")
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• 00:50, 27 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Ng.MTU (Created page with "destination. One is our chaplain. After much thought on the matter and in the final analysis, the best way to describe him would be to say that 'he's a nice guy'. A Lutheran some forty odd years --- he's a very even tempered fellow -- of impeccable ministerial behavior and remarkably tolerant of every one else's conduct. His religion is one wholly of faith and not of philosophy, and he is willing to accept anybody elses convictions as as being as worthy as his -- that is...")
• 00:34, 27 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Ng.MTQ (Created page with "no 2 nov 19 dear mother, dad and sis received another note from sister before she left for Indiana --- and a letter from home posted nov 4. I'm supposed to seal my letters even though they are subsequently censored -- that's proper procedure. However, the presumption is that my mail is only spot checked from time to time. If they re reading all of it I'm probably being investigated by the FBI. You see, one of my tentmates was indiscreet enough to voice his intentions...")
• 18:39, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page Letters to transcribe (Created page with "Nothing here yet, but this page will eventually list letters currently in need of transcription.")
• 13:29, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mw.MTA (Created page with "I'm still sitting in the same place — fighting a rapidly losing battle against the mosquitos. I kill the in droves but they have more replacements than the Russians & Germans combined. They come over like dive bombers hourly — and when they pass on — all is devastation in their wake. More again soon<br /> Mervyn.")
• 13:26, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mw.OQ (Created page with "5. I certainly would like to have my Times subscription continued. It'll be awfully late getting here (I received only one since arrival) but lots of information I have no other way of getting. I worked with Dr. Wincar when I was at the Bronx — and, altho I never devoted too much time or interest with opthalmological surgery — I think he's quite a competent surgeon for that sort of operation. The operation is usually quite simple and I'm sure everything will be all...")
• 13:17, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mw.OA (Created page with "much — if any — is being cut out of them. As for what to send me: 1. <u>Don't</u> — <u>Don't</u> send any cigarettes. So far, we are able to get a cartonper man per week — (which is more than I use) — and at a cost of four cents per pack. 2. Please do send me a few packages of typewriter paper — and some fairly nice stationary (with large sheets). Paper is almost unobtainable around here. 3. Send me a copy of 1. "Fathers & Sons" by Turgenev and 2. Don Quix...")
• 13:08, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mw.Nw (Created page with "No 1. Nov. 15.<br /> Monday. Dear Mother & Dad & Sis, Received three letters from home and one from sis in Chicago — since my own letter the other day. The mail comes in helter-skelter fashion with no regard at all for the sequence in which it was written. So when I received a letter writtten on Oct 30 — saying that Rhoda had dinner at the Fershings[?] — and nothing more — it took me some time to figure it all out. Two days later I got the letter of the 23rd sa...")
• 12:54, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .NQ.MTM (Created page with "The desk is another outstanding example of the beauty & grace of line so characteristic of Schacht executions")
• 01:13, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page Transcribe Merv's Letters (Created page with "Each ''item'' on the [https://mervwrites.net ''Merv Writes''] website is a letter, aka a ''''document. When you visit a document's page on the site, you'll see the ''files'' (aka ''images'') that make up the document. If you scroll down below the images, you'll see metadata about the item and, below that, the heading ''Transcribe This Item.'' Beneath the heading is a link to each file (image) constituting the document (letter). Clicking the link to an image will bring u...")
• 00:58, 26 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page Useful MediaWiki info (Created page with "* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ] * [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language] * [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Speci...")
• 16:28, 25 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mg.Ng (Created page with "don't know whether you're getting them. love — & more tomorrow<br /> Mervyn.")
• 16:07, 25 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mg.NQ (Created page with "have a wooden platform under our feet (just laid and on the ground) — and we sleep on canvas cots. And of course, we still have pup tents as part of our personal equipment — so that the penultimate profanity of my sensitive soul is still a future possibility. However, it's not very likely. We'll probably just sit around here for a while, and then finally leave for some south pacific destination and go to work. The problems of transportation, shipping and supplies a...")
• 13:00, 25 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .Mg.NA (Created page with "Nov 12 Dear mother, dad, & sister, Some news which is really no news at all. We've been moved again —— but only from one staging area to a worse one. We're now situated some hundreds of miles north of our previous encampment, bringing us that much nearer the torrid zone. But it's still the midst of spring, the nights are cold, the heat of the day is modulated by pleasantly cool breezes, and the Australian countryside continues to present natural beauties which are...")
• 12:39, 25 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MQ.Mw (Created page with "Life in camp still pursues its rough and ready character (it's remarkable what one can accommodate to) — providing very little emotional or thought stimulation of any sort, except for what ha been provided in the various and shifting beauties of unadulterated nature that I have passed across in these recent months of travel. I have talked to a number of people who have actually been in the war in the south pacific and even to those who are in it (there are hosts of th...")
• 12:37, 25 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MQ.Mg (Created page with ""Are you related to Al Schacht?" When I said yes — he remarked that he had gone to school with him and played ball with him as a youngster, and knew him well. He promised to call you when he gets home — but that may be several months of course. Had dinner at Liebmans's[?] friday night, met Saul's young brother-in-law who is now in the American army — and had a pleasant evenining. The family is quite religious and it was the first time in a long time that I had fri...")
• 03:21, 25 January 2023 Paul talk contribs created page .MQ.MQ (Created page with "Wednesday<br /> Oct 27 Dear mother, dad & sis, An interesting incident this morning. I happened fortuitously to be reading in the reaction room (the only room available for such purposes on the premises) when a group of boys gathered to listen to a Mr. Gottlieb who is just finishing an extensive tour of army installations all over Australia and New Guinea as the representative of the Jewish Warfare Board. The JWB, you know, is one of the four organizations which create...")
• 00:52, 25 January 2023 MediaWiki default talk contribs created page Main Page