{"id":2909,"date":"2018-06-05T21:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T21:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=2909"},"modified":"2018-09-23T14:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T14:08:43","slug":"july-27-1943-santa-ana-california","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/classification-stage-july-1943\/july-27-1943-santa-ana-california\/","title":{"rendered":"July 27, 1943, Santa Ana, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\r\n Tom is on bivouac and encountering ticks, snakes, scorpions, and K-rations.\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div><\/em>I think it’s Tues.<\/p>\n
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July 27, 1943, Santa Ana, California, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dearest,<\/p>\n

What a hell of a life. Limited to 2 gal. of H2O a day for everything which means about a quart to drink. Snakes, insects and everything else to make life miserable.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we had lecture and athletics, this morning more lectures and infantry tactics this afternoon with medium pack. Tomorrow a 15 mile hike with full pack and K rations. Something Thurs. only 20 miles and Fri. hike back to the base and start pilot school Sat. morning.<\/p>\n

The country around here is pretty nice but no water, I would give a month’s pay for a bath. No one is allowed to shave because of the water shortage and as a result we are all beginning to look alittle rugged. I know now that a beard can itch. The night before last about the whole camp got some straw to sleep on, two fellows got bitten by ticks and one found a scorpion in bed with him, the two that were bitten had to be taken into the hospital. As a result juist about everyone has rigged up some kind of a hammock. I’ve fixed up something that looks alittle like a stretcher but you have to lay in it a certain way or the bottom falls out – as I said before it is a hell of a life.<\/p>\n

\"July<\/a>
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Are you still working or did you decide to stop dating?<\/p>\n

A fellow wants me to go play horseshoes sop will close.<\/p>\n

All my love,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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I think it’s Tues. Dearest, What a hell of a life. Limited to 2 gal. of H2O a day for everything which means about a quart to drink. Snakes, insects and everything else to make life miserable. Yesterday we had lecture and athletics, this morning more lectures and infantry tactics this afternoon with medium pack. … Continue reading July 27, 1943, Santa Ana, California<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1702,"menu_order":2920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-zoe-foran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3162,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2909\/revisions\/3162"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}