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ti • { w Wi-ll I ' ve i-arnrd a pla ' - on litis list quiU- frrqurnlly fnr arcumplishmrnU uf various kinds, anil raih timi- llic Y.xec singirs m - out (rum ihr olhrre and says. Well, 1 see you ' ve been placed on re| ort again. I say. Ve , »ir. Ami lie says, Why. of all llie HIHH ' ' ■ ' ' ' lat liave you (o say for yourself? . nd I say, Nothing, Sir. We keep on ihalling back and forth like that. . s I say, we have a speaking arc|uaintanee. It is Inn- that now and then heing on a ship has its to-be-furgollen moments. l!ut in general it is a HHI life. I uould have missed it for anything. If I have any complaint at all it is that the Navy seems to be so very male. On my particular ship, for example, the crev» is prac tically all masculine. In fact. I am obliged to say there are no ladies on lioanl at all. Or within signalling ili-lance- either by semaphori ' or blinker. Frankly. I have been rather surprised at this. Do you remember that poster ilown by the posloHice showing that pretty Wave with a sailor on one side and a Marine sergeant on the other? The water in the background looked a great ileal like the water I ' ve seen so many cubic miles of lately. 1 was sure it was till- Pacific. But, you know, I ' ve been wnndering if maybe that picture wasn ' t taken on the Allantir. I keep my eyes peeled but 1 haven ' t seen anything like tliat on. or above, or beneath the salt water out here. Sometimes I can just shut my eyes and imagine myself wafting gallantly up to a Wave, or pairing off with a Spar, or meandering in the moonlight with a lady Marine. But when I open them again it ' s morning and there ' s that fi ' llow who says he ' s going to loss us overboard if we don ' t hit the deck — and on the double. May the plague take him. Well, I know you ' ve been anxious to hear how things were going, anil I ' m :lail to have had this chance to tell you all about the ship and everything. I ' m- tried In piii it ilown as carefully as I conlil. I guess this will about have Id » iliil it ll|i t i n.iH. l very best to you and all at home. Please write when you can. Anyway, iiii ran be s ' jre that it ' s mischief I ' m keeping out of. I venture to remain. Your I son I I brother) ( husband i I father I i uncle I i cousin • I friend) ( Oneand-Only ) (Signed) Wanta C. Markktstkhet, S. 2 c. Ship ' s Company. I .S.S. C. SC. DE. I I I ' ll tr til »ri(r iiinrr often. ' I iiiir pelling is gelling belter. I I IIm» i the old Chevy holding up? I 1 Civr ni ln i to the twins. I I It niu l n- liinr to put nets rnolldi; unr »llli ill. ' |inlrll IMirki ' t-.. I I Any lurk with your ictory Carden? I I Don ' t sit under the apple tree. I I I IwiM ' not brrii illing iindir llic apple tree. I I What will we do for snow oiil hire tlii l!hri tii ' . . Ih ' iir kinil Cfiisors: ill my grey suit- you know, the im siirr it uill lir nil right In mvii litis hrcnus our Chaplaiit hrl ml me ivrilr il. ■Iffrrliniialrh , (Initialed) W. C. M., S 2 c. I ' lifif Til filly
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all over the deck pushing down with thr stick with ihe- clulh mi ihc end. Competition in this is very keen. We play it for quite a wliile every morning. Then there is another game they let us play in the kitchen in which they give all the players a small knife and a basket of some kind of round vegetable. The object of this game is to see who can peel them the fastest. I don ' t know whether you can understand the rules of the game from my description of it, but it is the most fun. They let us do our own washing, too. Some of the boatswain ' s mates prefer Lux and the master-at-arms swears by Rinso, but they can ' t make me switch from Ivory. I ' m saving the wrappers so I can win the Buick sedan when they have the contest in 1951. I like Ivory Soap because it always keeps my dunga- rees and canvas underthings so dainty and fresh. We also have a Juke Box which plays 24 records at a time. Not all at the same time, mind you, but at seemly intervals. Golly, I could just sit there all day and put in nickels and watch the neon lights go on and off. It ' ll even play I Want To Go Back To Where I Came From with an accordion accompani- ment. They won ' t let us play horseshoes on the ship, but did I tell yl u about the Soda Fountain? Well, we have one — with separate handles for all the flavors. It is quite crowded usually with a long line of customers. At first I used to stand in line with the others, but that was before I figured out the angle. My strategy was to slowly become the fast friend of the young man who runs it. And now — pfft, whenever I want to, and without any waiting at all I march right up and he lets me have a good lick (ui his ice cream cone. I ' ll never forget the day it had nuts in it. As you must know, we have a regular daily schedule we follow on the ship. First, there is reveille in the morning. Then we turn to for ship ' s work. At noon we line up for chow. In the afternoon there is ship ' s work. And at night we hit the sack. When this goes on for a couple of fortnights one begins to sense a certain sameness about it after a while — as you can well understand. Accordingly, when the Fourth of July arrived this year there was a general feeling throughout the ship that — warfare or no warfare — we ought for just once do something a little different and really celebrate. So, on the morning of the Fourth, bright and early, there was reveille. After which we turned to heartily for ship ' s work. Then promptly at noon we lined up and had chow. In the afternoon there was a full program of ship ' s work. And that night, to a man, we hit the sack. It wasn ' t much, but I can assure you it was a wonder- ful relief from the same old routine. I know you are anxious to hn l out where we are. and 1 wish 1 coultl tell you right out — Papeete or Kansas City — just like that. But the best I can do is to tell you what the people say when they meet you on the street: ugh-ugh, hi toots, gesunheit, aloha, actios, banzai, skoal. (Please choose any two.) Now you have something to work on. I ' m glad to be able to write that I ' ve studied that book by Mr. D. Carnegie you told me about, and that as a result I ' ve won some good friends on the ship. I ' m sure I could have managed without the book, though. You know how utterly ■■■■HUH- Hill- a ' devastatingly ■■■■ I can be when I want to. As for that, I even have a speaking acquaintance with the Executive Officer. You see, there is a list they make up each day — a kind of honor roll — for doing anything particularly outstanding. They call it being on report and everybody on the list is especially asked to appear before the Executive Officer. I -A 1 Pnrre Nineteen .u
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