"Dear Dad" Letter
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Title
"Dear Dad" Letter
Subject
Hines, Joseph M. (1923-1969)
Toms Brook (Va)
World War (1939-1945)
Description
Letter sent from Joseph M. Hines, USMC, to his father Duval Hines in Toms Brook Virginia.
Creator
Joseph M. Hines
Source
Folder 1.7: Letters from Joseph Martin Hines USMC to Duval Hines and Mary Hines, 1944, Joseph Hines Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
September 11, 1944
Contributor
Susan Hines
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Language
English
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Text
Envelope:
PFC. J.M. Hines
C-1-24th-4th MAR. DIV.
C/O FLEET PO.
SANFRANCISCO
CALF.
Mr. D.D. Hines
Toms Brook
Virginia
PFC. J.M. Hines
C-1-24th-4th MAR. DIV.
C/O FLEET PO.
SANFRANCISCO
CALF.
Mr. D.D. Hines
Toms Brook
Virginia
Letter:
Dear Dad,
I said I wouldn’t write you till you wrote but I’ll break down and scratch a few. I have a bunch of fuzz on my upper lip and I’ll enclose a picture I had made on liberty the other day.
You know dad fighting is just like hunting sometimes except the little bastards shoot back at you. I had some pretty narrow squeaks but I guess I zigged when they zagged cause they didn’t get me.
Mother ask[ed] me what I wanted for Christmas. Well to tell you the truth I really don’t know but it’s more fun not to anyhow. Tell her to send some cookies and the rest is up to you. I can’t think of a thing except a furlough. Ha.
Tell Mr. Tom that I got a Jap with the 45 and I saw a buddy of mine get one at 500 yds with one shot from a B.A.R. They just put a radio in my tent so I’ll have to get on the job before some of the guys come in. So don’t expect much writing from me till you write.
Love,
Joe
PS tell sis she is next but she better write first.
Dear Dad,
I said I wouldn’t write you till you wrote but I’ll break down and scratch a few. I have a bunch of fuzz on my upper lip and I’ll enclose a picture I had made on liberty the other day.
You know dad fighting is just like hunting sometimes except the little bastards shoot back at you. I had some pretty narrow squeaks but I guess I zigged when they zagged cause they didn’t get me.
Mother ask[ed] me what I wanted for Christmas. Well to tell you the truth I really don’t know but it’s more fun not to anyhow. Tell her to send some cookies and the rest is up to you. I can’t think of a thing except a furlough. Ha.
Tell Mr. Tom that I got a Jap with the 45 and I saw a buddy of mine get one at 500 yds with one shot from a B.A.R. They just put a radio in my tent so I’ll have to get on the job before some of the guys come in. So don’t expect much writing from me till you write.
Love,
Joe
PS tell sis she is next but she better write first.
Original Format
Envelope and Letter
Collection
Citation
Joseph M. Hines
, “"Dear Dad" Letter,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 28, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/11640.
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