Pvt. W. D. Johnson Jr 34945847\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Postmarked October 11, 1944)
\nB-19-5\u00a0 A.G.F. Repl. Depot\u00a0 # 1
\nFort Geo. G. Meade, Md.<\/p>\n
Thursday\u00a0 7:15 P.M.<\/p>\n
Dearest Mother & Dad:<\/p>\n
I surely was happy to hear from you today, Mom. Yours was the first letter I’ve received since I’ve been here – Louise’s letters have gotten held up somewhere. I was glad to hear that she is okay.<\/p>\n
I’m doing fine here. Our outfit is headed overseas. I was told first (yesterday) I was going now today they say I’m not on the list. I’m the only one not shipping so I don’t know what to think & can’t tell you all anything yet as to what disposition they will make with me. I could be shipped with another outfit or held here or transferred to another camp in the interior.<\/p>\n
Have spent evenings in Washington & Baltimore since I’ve been here. They are very liberal on passes here – to give us as good a time as possible before we go over, I guess. Wash is about 20 miles and Baltimore is about 16 or 18 & good transportation to both towns. The money you all gave me has enabled me to go to town & splurge a little & it has surely been fine to have. Also I bought me a little cigarette lighter with some of it. Thanks again.<\/p>\n
They aren’t working us too hard – just enough to keep us busy & keep us from getting soft.<\/p>\n
The enclosed sorry picture was taken by a 15 mechanical camera booth in Baltimore last nite. I sent Louise a couple – none of them were any good. I only took 3.<\/p>\n
Mom, I appreciate Alice’s message. Also I was glad to hear the picnic was a success but was sorry Julie didn’t get to go.<\/p>\n
It’s pretty cool weather here – ideal weather for marching etc. It’ll be cold here before too long. I sorta like it but might change my tune when it really turns cool.<\/p>\n
I’ll let you all know where I’m going as soon as I know and in the meantime, don’t worry. Since I was not put on this shipment I have a hunch I’m not to be sent overseas. You all write as often as you can and here’s<\/p>\n
Lots of love to each of you<\/p>\n
David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pvt. W. D. Johnson Jr 34945847\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Postmarked October 11, 1944) B-19-5\u00a0 A.G.F. Repl. Depot\u00a0 # 1 Fort Geo. G. Meade, Md. Thursday\u00a0 7:15 P.M. Dearest Mother & Dad: I surely was happy to hear from you today, Mom. Yours was the first letter I’ve received since I’ve been here – Louise’s letters have gotten held … Continue reading “October 11, 1944”<\/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-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adaendo.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}