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14 May 1944

 

Dear Folks:

It has been sometime since I’ve heard from you.  Guess the mail has slowed up a little.  Hope you have received the box by now and liked what we put into it.

Well this was Sunday, Mother’s Day and suppose I should be able to write something very nice but there is so much that I remember about you and all you have done that I couldn’t start to express all I feel.  The church service this morning was in your commemoration and the Chaplain has something fixed up to send home, a little card with the program in it.  And speaking of church, the church sends me something now and then and I thought perhaps you would be interested in the enclosed program.  If you read them carefully, you can get an idea of the service and the size of it.  I wish I could attend every Sunday.

Dick dropped around this afternoon but there wasn’t a lot we could do so we just loafed around and chewed the fat and once again put Minatare through the mill.  He just bought a pair of glasses, dark tinted and he looks good in them.

The recent furlough plan has taken a little effect and two men from the battalion have left.  However don’t regard it as any indication that I will get one, for I haven’t two years service yet and then there are other circumstances as shipping, etc.  However I hope that in the next year an opportunity will present itself.

Well Mom and Dad, I can’t write much and I have a few things to do so I’ll put the breaks on about here. I wish I could have been with you on this Mother’s Day.  Every year that day means more and more to me.

Love,

Harold Moss Signature

Categories: Church, Dick Moss, Furloughs, Mother's Day, Packages to home

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Harold’s Whereabouts

Hawaii

Rank

<h4>T/Sgt. HG Moss 37086474</h4>

T/Sgt. HG Moss 37086474

Technical sergeant was the rank between staff sergeant and first sergeant. Technical Sergeant was renamed Sergeant First Class in 1948.

Description

2 handwritten pages, front side only, to his parents in Minatare, Nebraska. Letter very hard to read because through the years the ink had feathered into the paper to give  a blurred or water soaked appearance. This is the second letter of the same date, May 14, 1944.

Return Address

Hq. Btry 225 FA Bn
APO 958 San Francisco, California

Censor Stamp

No envelope. No censor stamp.

Postage

No envelope

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