“Expect
you're pretty busy with harvesting about this time, or getting ready for
it. Hope the rains didn't cause too much
damage.
“So
the Navy is going to accept you for active duty in college. Thats going to be quite a boot camp. Will you have to major in the sciences?”
-- Letter from Dale Sooter, Camp Rucker,
Alabama, to my father, Bloomington, Kansas, Tuesday, June 15, 1943. Dale was likely referring to the wheat
harvest, the major crop in Kansas, which was harvested in June. (On wheat, see my early post, “Sun, Oct 11,1942: plenty of work”).
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