Dear Jin:
If tho idea for the "Hoover Rail” is your oY/n^ I \/ant tc tell you its a GEM.
I li’cc to lie around on the bunlc and read that 'baby’ T;hcii I have nothing much
to do. Kopo ^rou vail see to it that. I don't rxiss a copy for the Duration.
My basis tra,ininf, is roll under way noi; f’iid I have cnjoyed it every minute,
so far it has not toon too hard. I like the place voT'f much. Some of the fellovv's
here came up fron Fort Era^;g- r„Lonff v/ith mu, but most of Comprjiy G r.re from Indiana
and Ohio
This IS a grnnd placc t'l be and I'm /^'ctbin.n’ alonr; fine.
Kindest regards tc evcr^/body in I^w^ndrle,
Jerry Ca.ldAv'cll (Viooley)
Camp 1.00,, Virginia
To the Lawndia,lc Citizens, the "Hoover Rail La,\73^e:?s" and Editor:
I have received copies of your paper and cnj.-)y--- reading it, so keep up the f:ood
v/ork, I knoTj the r^st of the men in scrvicc cn;io^’':!d the paper as ntuch as I^. I
wish to thank the friends of La\'»nda3.c for l.hc many Christmas greetings which I
received and mr.y the Nci^ Ycr.r- bi-;Lr.-5 VjL-tory tc -33 all.
I am looking fonvard to the nc::t issue, so Just pass the ammunition.
To tht: Men in service from Lav/ndalc, I Mi.sa you the best of luck and a safe
return, home-
Pfc, Avery T, Sloan,
Fort Dc'u^las, Utah
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Dear Friends:
I just received my second copy of your (or our) "Hoover Rail", r.nd I crji’t
borin to tell you how much I enjoyed readinr; it. I think it is a v;onderful thing,
somcthuif/ uhat every man or boj-, ;vho ivas born, or has lived in that tcvm would
appreciate. ^ I cspcci?.VLy like 2.I f^r this parti'JuD.ar reason, I have a number of
fricnc.s -.n the service ircr: there., ijho I could never make contact i;ith, but j^-our
Bulloi-in has :ioa it possible.
lou proba.bly wonder hov; I like life in the service — I like it very much and
mr.y m.ake a career of it, that is^ after I help ''Sink the Setting- Sun",
I'll be looking fr-rward tc the ne>± edition^
S/Sft. Lbrris S. Rarasaur,
c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
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We thank-you for the nice letters we have received and which we have
thc'rou^;^h^y enjoyed. Ue wish more of you 'i/ould write so that wc could
publish your letters, which v;e lnow wdll be of interest to all the boys
in the service,
BE SURE TO DTFORfi US FROJPIT.Y OF kin CIlAl-ICth; 71' YOm ADDRESS.
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Joseph C, Grow, former ambassador to Japan, quotes this from a diary of
rii Aixrican Soldier as a good, motto for every American:
"I will work; I will save; I wilj. sacrifice; I will endure; I
will fight checrfully and do my utmost; as if the whole struggle
depended on uo alone."