Letters And Parcels

See, we couldn’t keep letters because they might tell people, if anyone is captured or anything, they’d know where we come from. This one time we had prisoners and I was sent to the headquarters. I don’t know how many prisoners, I took three boys with me anyway. So I went down to see about getting letters. I hadn’t gotten letters for months or anything. I went up to the clerk’s office and give him my name and number and he let out a yell and I thought, “Oh my God, in trouble again.” And he hollers and he had the other clerk come running over to see what the trouble was. And he says, “Here’s our man we’ve been looking for six months.” I got 35 letters and 28 parcels.Interviewer: At that one time? Yeah, and he asked if I had any help and I’ve got three boys. So you could imagine, I was trying to read letters and they were going through all the parcels. I got a pen and pencil set from my mother. We took that town on my birthday. This was soon after that and they were for my birthday the year before. So you could imagine what the gum and the cake or whatever and the chocolates bars looked like, some of them, all that hot weather and that.