{"id":4368,"date":"2019-03-07T11:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=4368"},"modified":"2019-03-07T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:59:32","slug":"march-6-1945-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-p-61-black-widow-fighter-training-november-1944\/march-6-1945-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"March 6, 1945, At Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='dropshadowboxes-container ' style='width:auto;'>\r\n                            <div class='dropshadowboxes-drop-shadow dropshadowboxes-rounded-corners dropshadowboxes-inside-and-outside-shadow dropshadowboxes-lifted-both dropshadowboxes-effect-default' style=' border: 1px solid #dddddd; height:; background-color:#edf2f9;    '>\r\n                            Tom is still aboard his ship, traveling to Europe. In his group of 6 officers sharing the same stateroom, four have pregnant wives.\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n                        <\/div>Tues. night.<br \/>\nMarch 6th.<br \/>\n&#8220;at sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4369\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea-Page-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4369\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea-Page-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"March 6, 1945, At Sea, Page 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 6, 1945, At Sea, Page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dear Dad,<\/p>\n<p>I thought you might appreciate a personal letter not that there is much to relate but time hangs pretty heavy on board ship and letter writing puts it to some good. I imagine by the time you receive this letter and the one I wrote to the whole family it will have been some time since you have heard from me.<\/p>\n<p>The novelty of this boat ride wore off a good many mile back and now about all you can see to it is alot of water. However, it is a great experience and one that I should never forget. Not that I wouldn&#8217;t rather be home, because I think just about everyone is thinking of the day he can come back even before he gets on the boat to leave. If he&#8217;s not then I&#8217;d say he&#8217;s damn fool.<\/p>\n<p>The food is still exceptionally good in fact we&#8217;ve even had ice cream several times.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4370\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4370\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea-Page-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4370\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea-Page-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"March 6, 1945, At Sea, Page 2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 6, 1945, At Sea, Page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I still can&#8217;t get use to these salt water showers. You might as well try to lather with a block of wood as a piece of regular soap. We have to use regular salt water soap. The lavatories have fresh water.<\/p>\n<p>Has Zoe been up to visit again. I guess train riding tires her out pretty much. We have four babies underway in our bunch which is a pretty good average.<\/p>\n<p>Well Dad I have to go on duty from 10 to 12 tonight and it&#8217;s almost 10 now so will sign off. There isn&#8217;t any more that I can tell you and I&#8217;ll let you know as soon as we get to where we are going.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4371\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4371\" src=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"March 6, 1945, At Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-content\/uploads\/March-6-1945-At-Sea.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 6, 1945, At Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tues. night. March 6th. &#8220;at sea&#8221;. Dear Dad, I thought you might appreciate a personal letter not that there is much to relate but time hangs pretty heavy on board ship and letter writing puts it to some good. I imagine by the time you receive this letter and the one I wrote to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/letters\/transition-to-p-61-black-widow-fighter-training-november-1944\/march-6-1945-at-sea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">March 6, 1945, At Sea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1698,"menu_order":8330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-from-tom-cartmell-to-doctor-cartmell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4368","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=4368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4368\/revisions\/4372"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}