Dec 5, 2013

Sun, Dec 5, 1943: home for Christmas

"Boy! Oh Boy! were we tickled when your letter say you would be home for Christmas.
"My little puppys have their eyes open and are getting bigger.
"We have all the corn shucked over at Ed King's and drove about 98 head over there.  We took your cow over there and it has a new calf.  Yesterday Buzz and I went hunting and got two rabbit, Buzz chased down one and I shot one with my B-B gun.  We chased a third one but didn't get him.
"In the last week old Buzz has got two possums, one in the chicken house and the other in a pile of brush."

-- Letter from my uncle, age 10, Bloomington, Kans., to my father, age 18, Navy V-12 program, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Sunday, December 5, 1943.

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