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2 November 1942

 

Dear Folks:

After reviewing two of your letters guess it is high time I took up my pen again.  I think my mail is arriving okay—for many of yours have been received and hardly a mail call goes by without my getting at least one but then I never get enough to suit me.  Gram is behind I believe.  Perhaps if I scan over your letters, I can find something to write about.  The news about Eilad Horshman is news—it was time she flew the coop though—or perhaps the coop never was much of a cage.  Haven’t received the Free Press yet but they’ll get here.  My tooth is yet unfixed although I had a dental appointment but it fell through.  Believe they intend to pull it.

And the subscription is just the ticket—we subscribe to it but it isn’t always available and I like to read it through.  I’ve answered the rest of the questions.

Tonight in the dayroom the radio is crashing on every table—there’s a game of pinochle going on, two or three books being read and plenty of letters being written and the smoke is like a blanket of clouds.

About this time every nite I turn over a leaf or two on an old memory album and look at each picture slowly and catch a glimpse of the privileges that made them possible.  Guess I’ll stop with that.

Goodnite and a bomber load of love,

Harold Moss Signature

Categories: Books, Bridge (cards), Dental, Free Press hometown news, Grandparents, Mail, Military daily life, Radio news

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Harold’s Whereabouts

Hawaii

Rank

<h4>Pfc. HG Moss 37086474</h4>

Pfc. HG Moss 37086474

Private first class is the rank just above private. There was little difference between the these ranks. Most of the soldiers in WWII had the rank private or private first class.

Description

Two handwritten pages, front only, on Hawaiian stationary (rust colored palm trees and natives in canoe, on bottom left-hand side of sheet), to his parents in Minatare, Nebraska

Return Address

Btry B 1st Bn, 225 FA
APO 962 San Francisco, California

Censor Stamp

Passed by 1111

Postage

6 cent airmail

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