Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 15 September 1944 — NEWS OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN

Pvt. Paul Hoffman has returned to Columbus, Ohio, after a furlough spent with home folks. Lt. Norman Holladay is now stationed at Camp Hood, Texas. S Sgt. Arthur DeKoker has been transfered from Camp Adair, Oregon, to Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. A post card from former Coach Stephens reads as folows: Attention: Circulation Department. Kankakee Valley Post, The last paper I saw was Aug. 4th. Would appreciate back issues. Thank you. Pvt. Chas. Stephens. Pfc. Kenneth Yeagley is somewhere in France according to word received by his father, Ward Yeagley. Sept. 2, 1944 Dear Mrs. Peterson, Have been moved to the parachute training school at Ft. Benning, so would you please send the paper to my new address. I sure appreciate getting the paper, really keeps a fellow up on the news at home. Thanks a iot. Pfc. Cecil DeYoung.

Pvt. Peter G. Walstra is home on furlough. The following is a letter from Pfc. Pat Harrington to his parents Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Harrington of Kersey. Pat is somew’herq/ in India. My Dearest Mom, Dad and family, Well here I am again, happy because the eagle pays off today and maybe I can get a couple cigars if they are in yet at the PX. Its still raining here, rains al the time. You said something about the hot weather, you should be here, all of it you want. When its not raining its so hot you can’t w’rite or even sit down. The sweat just roll off you. I just wrote Maurice, asking him about his baby. I’ll bet he is happy. How is Bessie coming along, fine I hope. You asked me what the women wear here. Well to begin with they are as black as the ace of spades. They don’t wear dresses, some of the high class anglo do, but the lower class, the ones that do all the work, wear rags wrapped around them. Some of them do wear blouses and wrap this cloth around their bodies. Some wear their hair in a ball on the top of their head, others let it hang. The women do all the work. The men lay around. This is off the record, but they say when women have babies the men lay in bed and suf-fer—ha,-ha, not bad eh? Well, Mom I’ll close for now’. I’ll write again, probably tomorrow. With all my love, Your son and brother Pat.