10-16-1943

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Dear Don,
Well how are you and “taxes now. I hope you are still O.K. and maybe getting better food. Our chow up here keeps getting worse but I guess it can only get so bad. However I did gain another 3 lbs. this month.
School is getting stiff now as we have test week starting Wednesday and you know how that is. I guess you are about ready to finish up your school there aren’t you. I’ll bet you are really getting into some interesting radio work now aren’t you? I sure hope you get to go to Corpus Christi—that is a good place I hear—but then I guess there are places just as good.
Damn, I can’t make $24 last me hardly half a week let alone a whole month. We get $50 originally but we have to (almost compelled, haha) take $18.75 out for war bonds & then insurance it all cuts the chit down to $24---I make out “purty” good on it though (all kiddin aside)
Hope you are well.
Well this is the first deer season you and dad & I haven’t been sittin out somewhere waitin for a deer but I guess dad will have to get the DeeR alone this time while you and I get the DeAR. Well I think I’ll hit the good old Sack—Best of Luck to you---Bill