Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 June 1944 — NEWS of our Service Men and Women [ARTICLE]

NEWS of our Service Men and Women

Dear Eid tor, writes Sgt. Walter J. Eide, *Tve been meaning to write this letter to you for sometime, but have kept putting it off until tomorrow and so have never got it written. I have been receiving the Post for a long time and have enjoyed it very much. It is nice to get the news from home and of the boys in the service, boys from DeMotte are scattered pretty well over the world now. In just a few more days I will have been overseas for two years, as you can imagine I am really looking forward to the day when I will be back in DeMotte. I know that all of us over here are looking to that day. I have seen a lot of interesting sights since I’ve been overseas, but I think that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius was the most outstanding. I was close enough to hive a good look at it, but not close enough to worry. I’m about to run out of space, son in closing, I want to thank you for sending the Post. I do appreciate it very much.—Sincerely, Walter Tide. Mrs. Peterson, I have been receiving the paper for 19 months, while I was out in the desert, and enjoy reading it. I’ve had a change of address and kindly wish you would send it to me.—Pvt. Daniel Rindt, A. S. N. — 35561427, Co. K., 417 Inf., A.PO 76, Camp McCoy, Wise. Pfc. Dale W r . Schwanke is now in training at Westover Field Mass. When he completes the course there he will be a top gunner in a B-24. Cpl. Frederick Jeffers has been transferred to Ft. Warren, Wyoming. Cpl. Clarence (Budda) Boezeman has been moved from Mississippi to South Carolina. Dear Editor, I have been receiving the KVP and have changed addresses now. It is Pvt. Howard Personette, 201st Inf., Co. L., Camp Carson, Colorado. I have been receiving this paper since March and it sure is swell getting a paper like yours, having all the home news.—Yours truly, Pvt. H. Personette. Dear Editor, Well, again I must inform you of my new address. I haven’t changed companies this time, my Outfit just got a new name. I’m really sorry to bother you so much but this outfit doesn’t seem to know what they want. At the present time I am out on manuevers with a platoon of men and it really is swell here. We are right by Hillsborough river and you should see the fish we catch. We have fish four and five times each week and the nights are really beautiful. The days are pretty hot, but the ngihts are so wonderful we don’t say anything about the heat in the day time. Florida is a wonderful state but give me good old Indiana any time. A person doesn’t realize how wonderful Indiana really is until they are gone a couple of years from there. There isn’t much more

to write about so I’ll close for this time and I do hope I won’t have to bother you with another address for a long time.—Sincerely yours, Pvt. Roy G. Jones, 35581593 Section F 315 AAF Bu, (AWVTC) Drew Field, Tampa, Fla. A letter from Pfc. Einar Anderson, to his parents, tells them that he is somewhere in latly. He says that the country he has seen there is beautiful and he is feeling fine. Inquire at the Post for the addresses of our service men and women. Pfc. Walter and Mrs. Huhn of Ft. Slocum, N. J., are visinting friends and relatives here. Mrs. Huhn will remain in Indiana for the summer. Word has reached us that SJSgt. Freddie Zeck has arived some where in England. Richard Osting, A.M.M. 3|c has a change of address. A letter from Pvt. Blaine Harrington, to his parents,, informed them that he is in a hospital in Italy because of a foot injury. He was unable to give any details as to how he w r as hurt or the seriousness of the injury. Mus. 2’c Fred G. Moolenaar of Williamsburg, Va., is home on furlough.