Smyrna times., 1944-11-23

eye open for the shell you can't
hear. That's usually the one that
gets in the punch.
Let us hear from you whenever
you have the time. Dribbles will
always be more than glad to open
up the morning mail and find your
letters there. Don't forget to look
up some of the Boys who are still
stationed over your way. There
are qquite few in England anil it
would be mighty nice if you could
make the connections.
Pacific Area
Dear Dribbles:
Just few lines to let you know
that I am still alive, and that 1
haven't forgotten you back there.
Frankly, 1 have intended to write
for sometime past, but just did not
get around to it until now. This is
Sunday morning, and a rainy one
at that. So, 'the better the day,
the better the deed"
AS you may have noted from the
above remark, this is our rainy
season over in this part of the
world. We are having plenty of
thunder showers also. I guess the
folks back home are beginning to
feel the snap of colder weather,
and are preparing for Winter. 1
would like to be there to see the
first snow when it comes.
I saw fluffy" the other day, and
was talking to him. He looks just
as good as he did when he left
Smyrna. He said to tell you all
that he said 'hello."
I received The Smyrna Times a
few days ago. While reading in
your column the different letters
you have received from different
Boys, I ran across one from Homer
Cox. was especially interested
about that part of his letter where
he said that people back home did
not have any idea of what it was
like over in Burma. The same
thing would apply to these Pacific
Homer really told the
word of it. The peo-
Pile back home do not realize what
it is really like over here until they
get here and live the way we Boys
have to live.
I certainly do enjoy reading the
letters the Boys send in. They give
a fellow an opportunity to kind of
find out where a number of his
Buddies are stationed. AS you
know, almost all the Boys from
Smyrna were split up into different
outfits. 1t surely will be grand
when we all get back to the good
old Home Town again.
Dad keeps me informed on the
news from down at Wilson Cabinet
Co. He says that you, and all the
fellows down there often ask about
me. Well! I sure would like to
be back there working with you
fellows again. I learn that there
has been quite a change in the
plant since I left to enter the Ser
vice.
Well, I guess I had better sign
off as my time is betting sort of
short. I will have to go on duty in
about a half hour for a six hour
stretch. Please say 'hello" to all
of my old friends around Smyrna
for me, and don't forget to include
those down at Wilson Cabinet
Company.
Will say so-long for this time.
Viii try to write again before very
long.
Sincerely yours,
Edward Cahall
Pfc. Edward A. Cahall
A. S. N. 32487835
A. P. E. 706, o Postmaster
San Francisco, California
balance of address on application)
Sure glad to hear from you ED
die" Hope that the rainy season
does not do things to you out there
in the South Pacific.
Yes, we're all getting ready to
face Winter back here in Smyrna.
So far the weather has been fairly
mild, except for a few snappy days.
Course this won't last too long, al
though for the past several years
our real cold weather has not hit
us until after the middle of Janu-
ary. Perhaps you remember this.
Usually we get it somewhere along
about January twenty-first. From
then on until the last of February,
anything can happen. Let us hope
that this year will not be too Sc
we're.
Thanks for your report on S-Sgt.
Charles H. Hufschmidt. We're sure
glad to know he is in the best of
health and looking fine. That's the
big thing Eddie" Even though
all is far from what you might
wish for out there in the South Pa
cific, it's big comfort to those at
home to know that you're o. K. in
spite of everything.
Dribbles remembers quite well
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