Illustrated Letters of Roland E. Hill by Jack Hill

Author:Jack Hill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jack Hill
Published: 2019-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Letter No. 32

“Just wait till this army gets home!”

Friday Oct. 11 [1918]

Dear Mother:

Here are some postals of Issoudun which will give you some idea of the place.

I am still hanging around wondering what is going to become of me. I seem to have acquired the habit of settling into eddies and staying there months at a time. However, this time luck is with me, as C.A. Hill has been made commandant of this detachment and he is the one who gives passes, so I guess I can get all I want. He is going to give me a three day pass today I think. If he does I will sneak up to Tours and drop in on M.L.

I have been getting letters from her nearly every day. Poor kid, she seems to spend nearly every morning in the cemetery at Cud’s grave.

Whole bunch of ground-school and Camp Dick friends have been breezing in from the States lately, and I have heard much news. It is quite evident that the training schools at home are much more efficient than those over here. David Royer, a good friend of mine in my architecture class, just came in from home. He enlisted after I did, but has flown over 400 hours including courses in combat, aerial gunnery, and bombing in the same time that I have flown six.

What do you think just came in the mail? Old and tattered and torn and nearly worn-out with long days of traveling. My commission! I will send it to you.

By the way — has Father been getting all those Vie Parisiennes & Sourires & Illustrations besides Plain News & Stars & Stripes that I have been sending him? He never has acknowledged them. It may be that the censor stops them as they have had some trouble about spies communicating through advertisements in the magazines — or perhaps they didn’t consider them entirely proper for American consumption. They are a trifle risqué perhaps but not enough so to be objectionable.

I just got two of your letters. September 11 and September 14 — first since I have been here.

Oh no, the September 11 is from Dan. He says he sent me several letters before, which I have never gotten. He says why didn’t I tell him I didn’t get his letters.

I’d much rather he would keep that camera and send me pictures he takes with it, than have him send it to me.

My édredon is finished — cost me f130 but it is fine. It is a big pillow 1 meter wide by 2 meters long and has all the way around three edges a piece of cloth sewed which is 50 cm. wide, to tuck in under the mattress. If this doesn’t keep me warm, I’m hopeless.

Voilà:

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