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Dear Dad,
This is the first night this week that I haven’t had alot to do so I though you might enjoy a letter. I received your letter yesterday. I want to thank you for taking car (sic) of the easter flowers for me. I guess you enjoyed your trip to Chicago and found everything ok. Has Karen changed much?
There is something that I would like for you to try and get me. That is a slide rule. I have looked around and all I could find are the cheap ones. They issued us one that I think all together cost the government 8⊄and it is pretty slow to use and not very accurate. With all this Physics and Navigation I have been living with this one they gave us. That reminds me I got a 100 on the Physics exam that we had. I think I have the highest average in the class in there. I don’t know if the courses are eaiser (sic) are if it is more up my line but they don’t seem to be giving me much trouble.
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To get back to the slide rule; I will be sending you some more money in a short time I think so you can take the cost of it out of there. I don’t know exactly how much they cost but I think around ten dollars. If you can get one for alittle less than that, that is good, go ahead.
You asked if I wanted to go back to school. I doubt very much if it would be possible and I think I am better off here. I like it alot even if it is pretty rough but I guess the harder anything is to get the better it is. Supposedly if we wash out after going through this schooling we will get to go to OCS.[1]OCS=Officer Candidate School I think I have been pretty lucky and this training here isn’t doing any of any harm even if we do complain alot.
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Our flight preforms (sic) this Sun. during the parade so every spare moment that we have we have been practicing our monkey drill. We really have a pretty nice marching outfit even if I do say so myself, however, most of us have been together ever since we first gotin the army.
I wold like to get to be alittle early tonight so had better close.
Love, Tom
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