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| Letter of January 6, 1946 |
Dear Mother,
The sun came out today! -- thought I'd never get my clothes dry. Lately, I've been having the Japanese do my washing -- we get a certain number six days a week to work in the company area.
Understand that investigations are being conducted in regard to the food being served in Philippine mess halls -- hope that something comes of it. It seems that by now we should be able to get such things as apples and oranges just once in a while. We had fairly good chow on Xmas -- a very small piece of turkey, dressing, dehydrated potatoes, beans, peas, bread and fresh butter, ice tea, ice cream -- and even a piece of pumpkin pie!
The hydrox were excellent -- thank you very much.
Funny thing about that dog of mine. He won't touch candy, -- but he loves ice cream and ice water.
There has been much ado about Patterson's statement -- that he was ignorant of the fact that point scores [for going home] in the Pacific were effective only to V-J day. But then how could the Secretary of War be expected to be familiar with such things?
We've been having movies three and four times a week. Usually there is a newsreel of some five or six months ago in addition.
Love,
Franklin
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| A Christmas photo from back home |
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