Thu, Apr 1, 1943: a buck private

“...How goes college life.  As for me, I am a buck private, Phil, the 2 Thornes, Worth & I are in the same barracks.  I am expecting to be shipped out of here to-night.  Maybe St. Petersburg Florida--that would be hard to take wouldn't it.

"The army is O.K.  I have to get up 4:45 in the morning & it's killing me off.  The food is pretty good...."

--Letter from Everett “Sammy” Samuelson, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., to my father, Winfield, Kans., Thursday, April 1, 1943.  Sammy was a college classmate of my father, who had joined (or been drafted) into the military.