"Dear Mother & All" Lettter
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Title
"Dear Mother & All" Lettter
Subject
Hines, Joseph M. (1923-1969)
Toms Brook (Va)
World War (1939-1945)
Description
Letter sent from Joseph M. Hines to his mother Mary Hines and family in Toms Brook Virginia.
Creator
Joseph M. Hines
Source
Folder 1.6: Letters from Joseph Martin Hines USMC to Duval Hines and Mary Hines, August- December 1943, Joseph Hines Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia, USA.
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
September 3, 1943
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Language
English
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Text
Envelope:
Mrs. D.D. Hines
Toms Brook
Virginia
Mrs. D.D. Hines
Toms Brook
Virginia
Letter:
Original Format
Dear Mother & All,
I have some news of all sorts both good and some not so good. We will take the bad first. All of the furloughs have been canceled until after the 15th of this mo. so I don’t know when I’ll get home but we are getting them [the furloughs] so that’s not too bad, is it? I would have written sooner but I didn’t want to write until I got all the dope,
I’m going to turn my money in at the office so I’ll save it. When you address my next letter be sure and make it PFC Hines – Yes it happened at last.
My name was ninth on a list of ninety, this last list, I mean. So now at least I have one stripe at least. I’m going up and have Dick Regar’s [Regan’s?] niece sew it on. I’m really down in the dumps this evening. I haven’t heard from Margaret in two weeks. None of the guys have been getting any mail.
Mother have everything ready for me when get there because I’ll have a million things to do. Swann’s [Swanson’s] girl is stepping out on him and he is pissed off, don’t blame him. Did I tell you I heard from Wallace and he was in the dispensary?
My old DI was shipped out here and he is a squad leader in my platoon. I’m in the third Platoon now and we haven’t got a “Louie” and my sergeant’s name is Blake. He just said tell you Hello. Well I’ll sign off now till later.
Love Joe
Drawing at bottom depicts set of stripes with text “snappy. Ha” pointing to it,
I have some news of all sorts both good and some not so good. We will take the bad first. All of the furloughs have been canceled until after the 15th of this mo. so I don’t know when I’ll get home but we are getting them [the furloughs] so that’s not too bad, is it? I would have written sooner but I didn’t want to write until I got all the dope,
I’m going to turn my money in at the office so I’ll save it. When you address my next letter be sure and make it PFC Hines – Yes it happened at last.
My name was ninth on a list of ninety, this last list, I mean. So now at least I have one stripe at least. I’m going up and have Dick Regar’s [Regan’s?] niece sew it on. I’m really down in the dumps this evening. I haven’t heard from Margaret in two weeks. None of the guys have been getting any mail.
Mother have everything ready for me when get there because I’ll have a million things to do. Swann’s [Swanson’s] girl is stepping out on him and he is pissed off, don’t blame him. Did I tell you I heard from Wallace and he was in the dispensary?
My old DI was shipped out here and he is a squad leader in my platoon. I’m in the third Platoon now and we haven’t got a “Louie” and my sergeant’s name is Blake. He just said tell you Hello. Well I’ll sign off now till later.
Love Joe
Drawing at bottom depicts set of stripes with text “snappy. Ha” pointing to it,
Collection
Citation
Joseph M. Hines
, “"Dear Mother & All" Lettter,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 26, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/11621.
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