Smyrna times., 1944-06-15
DRIBBLES 5
FROM
FROM
Our Boys and Girls
in the Service
David c. Harrison Post, No. IA,
American Legion, and Unit of the
American Legion Auxiliary.
Pacific Area
by


Pacific Area
Hello Dribbles:
Well, I suppose it is about time
for me to report to you-where ]
have been, and what has happened
ito me since wrote you from Goat
island Receiving Ship. Course, !
cant tell you very much or would
have the censors crowding down
on me, but 1 can say that I sure
am glad that was assigned to the
ship that 1 am now sailing on.
The boat that will be my home
for sometime to come is one of the
new destroyers, and is really a
honey. 1t is long jump from the
kind that you were on in the last
war, but then suppose your kind
were quite an improvement from
those back in Dewey's time at
Manila Bay.
Frankly, l really have been busy
since coming on my new assign
ment, SO that is the reason 1 have
ut dropped you line sooner. AL
though the present job is lot OF
work, like it swell. 1t is much
better than being put on an island
base. like I was almost set for
When we first put out, thought
I would become sea-sick like most
of the boys, but SO far it has not
bothered me. We have been in
some rough seas, too. Truthfully,
I'm mighty glad that my stomach
did not turn over in the accepted
manner, because when the fellows
came running to-side to the life
line. they really looked miserable.
Some of them thought they were
going to die.
have been hoping to see "Bill''
Melvin SO that we could compare
pictures of our baby daughters. So
far, / can't seem to catch up with
him. But if we do, am sure we
will be two proud fathers together.
You know, when this war is over,
and the whole bunch of us fellows
are back home, I will really have
a lot to talk about. A lot of us
will come back with nice families
already growing. 1t doehn't seem
like a little war can stop us.
Well, old Pal, 1 guess that's
about all have to say for this
time. Oh, there is a lot more that
/ have to tell you, but it will have
to wait until later.
I'll write you again as soon as l
can. So until you hear from me,
1 will remain reader of your good
column.
Clinton Wooleyhan, TN. SC
Clinton Wooleyhan, TN. &c
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco, California
(Balance of address on application
All, my fine friend! So you real
ly have turned up safely after all
this time. Sailor, 1 sure thought
that you had gone to sea in search
of Jonah-that the Whale had
swallowed you both down his little
red lane. 1 was so concerned that
I was just getting ready to have a
task force of sword fish to help you
cut your way out. Frankly, what
had happened to our old friend
Jonah did not worry me greatly,
but / did want to rescue you from
the narrow confines of the Whales
stomach.
Course, you could have been en-
joying yourself inside there shout
ing Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!", the
same as they accused "Bill' Melvin
of doing in the forward bulkheads
of this ship, so that the echo re-
sounded in his ears. Dribbles
doesn't blame either of you Boys
no, not one bit. 1t is sure mighty
fine to have a nice little family to
come home to whenever you shove
off ashore. Congratulations, my
friend- AS you say, why let a
small disturbance like the present
war retard happy progress? Some
branches of the Service could hold
up a bit until times were better
a sailor, never! The old spirit of
a776 is still in the hearts of Amer
lean youth. Taxes we must pay,
SO representation we must have. I
guess we can pass up the Boston
Tea Party in this case.
Clinton, Dribbles is glad to know