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| | . — & | eee . OR Ms tora tna te aernan rennin a al . a ae f RE SRINAS — aoe - oe : i eran Return address ' Bddressee °° Postmark ; pvt, Levis Feuer — ; Sergeent Joseph Lash | West Palm Beech, Fla. -- - _.. 313th Materiel Squadron . 1. S. S. # 7, Barracks 493 Farch-6, 1943 . v ‘Morrison Field, Florida ea ee ee tee 313th Jeteriel Squadron, “Yorrison Field, Florida. V Dear Joe, HE ag 2 SS “yim now Living in a tent beside the hangers, end working as a radio a "mechanic, We do pre-flight inspections on bombers which stop over before flying © ._-t.~overseas, I tae along, trying to pick up ‘the trade, but with a bas dc ‘eck. of vx Sebeehnical interest. The work is not hard, ‘except when ea big fleet isin. Right "now Itm on the night shift, end when our truck rolls around the field at night, it's ~~ mighty cold. No newspapers or magazines are on sale in our squedron. A special ‘pete pass and e bus ride are required to get the Florida papers. Living ina tent | _.. isn't bad except that we're all on different shifts end keep weking each other up. — “Also ‘the & un-cooks you under the canves during the afternoon when youte trying to “glep. ee oye - De a ES 1 aR gyn gig Ryo Uuwikcs . "The men here have mostly been in the army more than a year, -Unlike the ~ =" Megigon recruits, they seem to be intellectually numb, The military mode of -.. “existence presents them with immediate problems, viz. how to keep off details, a "TD KP, = how to get a furlough, etc, There seems to be little inclination to dis- "" Seuss bas ic political problems ; they're too tired, leck zest, and it will be ~°.-.. -".--gnough for them to go back to their old homes, with a new apprecietion of what it . _ "neans to have well-cooked.meals, a gir}.of,your.own, and a home that runs like -.. “clockwork.” That's what they tell“me when I raise the question of ‘the effects of the war, =Wa_r-awakens the conservative side of men; the pre-war life gets clothed .. with ‘sentimental halos, -We'll have to wait and see how the immediate ‘post-war 205 situation will ‘strike men, -The pre-war -world was ugly, and ‘it will never ‘return, =<" But when I read of developments in Washington, the organizing lines of reaction, and . “when we hear of the alignments getting under way in Europe, it becomes clear that ©. “the post-war era will open with a strife of classes euch asp we never have see a ~ a fo" "=<" gt hope, at least, thet I may be a more useful.citizen in the post-war | “\ wor 1a than I am now, What I'm getting out.of the Army is a chance to see men. ..* l Jat Closer range than before. Sometimes the observer has a-hard time kee ping 20>. or Japa nese whom they captured,.my respect for my countrymen goes down severa] notches 1° "y often feel that tt-was fist ag well that Xezuko went home; at least she didn't have ~~. ko see e undry posters and films which do not show the American people in a oi ised - * <spood. Of course, I-tell ny tent-mates that killing pris oners only makes them =* =. og Jess, and thus prolongs the war. Expediency provides sound argument ~pirt eV ope always feels less regard for the person in whose life sadie m has replace eo ; peont ordinary affection, And I find myself now telking less, arguing less “growing taciturn and disloguing with myself. The aray authori ties have givens “to underé tand that I'm not a thoroughly, weltome 8 oldier, “the months, however, igill ‘go,oh, apd each Gay drings the pnd closer. | The Boviets have taken Rave} sGaviet policy sémdp ever Xorwand 40,the 2peGer sity. 21°00. Ror eet sgted ao Se Parise ry: