Enjoy!Chuck Schneider
(Virtual) CEO
North American (Virtual) Locomotive Works
Dear Ma & Pa,I'm good. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt & Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch at the Wheeling creosote plant by a dang mile. Tell them to join up quick before maybe all of the places is filled.I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt & Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay or rattlesnakes to kill. Practically nothing in the way of real work. Men got to shave, but it ain't so bad, on account they git warm water.Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, etc, but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, chicken fried steak, huevos rancheros and other regular food. But tell Walt & Elmer you can always sit between two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till noon, when you get fed again.It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much. We go on "route" marches, which the Platoon Sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it's not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys gets sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.The country is nice, but awful crowded -- nothing like West Virginia.
The Sergeant is like a schoolteacher. He nags some. The Captain is
like the school board. Majors & Colonels just ride around & frown. They don't bother you none.This next will kill Walt & Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. Don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a squirrel and it don't move. And it ain't shooting back at you, like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is to lay there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes -- imagine that!Be sure to tell Walt & Elmer to hurry & join before other fellers get into this set up & come stampeding in.Your loving daughter,
Susan
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