It’s His Hobby

Wed. 4 April 1945

England – 9:25 a.m.

 

Dear folks,

Well I’m still here. Last Friday they took off the cast but the X-ray showed it wasn’t knitted so Sat. they ran me into the hospital. I’ve been cooling my heels here since. Yesterday they put it into another cast and took more X-rays but I haven’t the slightest idea what’s going to be the result. The wrist feels like it has since I first did that back at school. I guess I’ll just have to wait it out. This is a wonderful life but the days are too long. I had intended to write a few letters yesterday but then they put on this cast so I gave it up with the short one I wrote you. Dinner yesterday wasn’t bad – spuds, sauerkraut, string beans, bread, butter, rice pudding, peaches, and orangeade. After dinner I slept awhile and then they showed a movie here in the ward for most of the afternoon. It was a good picture – “Two Girls and a Sailor” with Gloria DeHaven, Durante, Harry James, Lena Horne, Gracie Allen and a lot of others. That helped pass the time a lot. I ate supper at about 5:00 – beans, cheese, asparagus, beets, bread, butter, cocoa and ice cream. After supper I just sat around awhile. Then one of the boys from another ward came down and we ended up going to see the same show over again. That was the 17^th time he had seen that picture. It’s his hobby I guess. After that I caught a shower and got to bed. 7:00 rolled around as usual this morning. It’s dark when we get up but it’s still light after 9:00 at night and it’s only April. Breakfast was good – fried eggs, bread, butter, jam, cereal, & milk. After eating we did our “housework” and then here I am. Nothing new so far this morning. I thought I might go back today but nobody seems in a hurry so I asked for a pass. The sun is on a sort of ½ & ½ basis today, ½ in & ½ out. Well there isn’t much else I can say now so I will bring this brief note to a close. I hope you can read it. I’m getting pretty good with these 2 fingers. So long again,

Love,

Son