{"id":26,"date":"1944-07-03T12:00:44","date_gmt":"1944-07-03T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:01:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T20:01:46","slug":"july-3-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"July 3, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pvt. W.m.D. Johnson Jr 34945847\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 3, 1944<br \/>\nB Co. 226 Bn.<br \/>\n69th Trg. Regt.\u00a0 I.R.T.C.<br \/>\nCamp Blanding, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Dearest Mother &amp; Dad &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By the time this gets to Montg. you, Dad will be on your way to dear old &#8220;Chi&#8221; and you Mom, will probably be in Auburn. But Sun. Is my only day to write so I&#8217;ll write anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Surely enjoyed your letter last week, Mother, and I&#8217;m relieved that you heard from Rip. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed the clipping which I enclose herewith. Please let Louise read it before you send it to Macey. I tried to tell her substantially the same thing in a letter recently but mine wasn&#8217;t nearly so well phrased. I would really like for her to read it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I would have enjoyed Johnny&#8217;s sermon. He has good ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Louise is coming down on July 26 27 &amp; 28 at which time I&#8217;ve made reservations here at the guest house for her. Boy, will I be glad to see her! She sent me a lovely picture of her &amp; Julie too which I was happy to receive.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t much news with me. Our days (and most of our nights) are full of training of one kind or another and it isn&#8217;t very interesting to recount. We&#8217;ve started on our specialized training ie, codes, tel &amp; tel etc. Monday begins our 7th week which means I only have 11 more weeks here &amp; that my training here is about 1\/3 over.<\/p>\n<p>I weighed today &amp; weighed 175. I weighed 189 when I came here so you see I&#8217;ve lost some of the excess. I&#8217;m fine &amp; feeling fine so there&#8217;s no doubt its doing me good.<\/p>\n<p>I stood my first guard duty yesterday &amp; Friday. I was on duty 24 hours but you only walk your post 2 hours at a time &amp; you&#8217;re not walking for the next 4 hours. Last time I heard from Macey he had just pulled his first guard duty.<\/p>\n<p>I hope Macey got to see Jess.<\/p>\n<p>You all write when you can. You just don&#8217;t know how welcome letters are!<\/p>\n<p>Love always<\/p>\n<p>David Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pvt. W.m.D. Johnson Jr 34945847\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 3, 1944 B Co. 226 Bn. 69th Trg. Regt.\u00a0 I.R.T.C. Camp Blanding, Fla. Sunday Dearest Mother &amp; Dad &#8211; By the time this gets to Montg. you, Dad will be on your way to dear old &#8220;Chi&#8221; and you Mom, will probably be in Auburn. But Sun. Is my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;July 3, 1944&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}