open letter to TresLeches
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- SteveJobs0
Dear TresLeches,
I have not been very prompt about writing lately. It has been about a week since I have written any letters at all. I am about out of writing paper but I can find some here if I look around a little. It is pretty hard to buy anything. One reason is that the stores and shops are so much different than our own that it is a little hard to get on to the customs. Then we are in a small village and no very large towns close by.
An old Wellsville boy with a regiment of engineers that have been here as long (or rather they came over about the time we moved to Ft. Sill) came over to see some of his old friends one night this last week. He certainly had a nice tale to tell us. He has seen quite a little of the real stuff and he is an American and someone that I know. That makes things a great deal more interesting. We have Englishmen here who tell us a lot of their experiences, too. I have seen a little of the results of an air raid and, if the weather is just so, the guns along the line can be heard quite plainly. Last night they kept up a continuous rumbling, louder than I ever noticed before.
The weather is certainly fine here. Like Kansas May weather minus the winds that blow every few days there. It doesn't get dark here until almost ten o'clock, just like the evenings your father used to tell of; those Scotland twilights. We are kept rather busy and we scarcely have time to dwell upon what good purpose these long twilights could be put to.
There have been a few letters get to the Company already but not many. I have not had one yet. I am in best of health and enjoying the Army so much as the law allows.
Write as often as you can and as much as you can every time you write for we fellows over here like to hear what is happening at home. Anything from old U.S.A. finds a place with us, even the Fords and they are quite numerous here.