Grandma and Pa's Letters

 Dear Sweetheart,  I received your letter this morning. Boy I was glad to get it. You did fine on the typewriter too. I am sure glad that you are going to stay there this summer. But listen Honey don't work to (too) hard; please. Honey, I am sending you a picture of the gun that I work on. I am in the picture with some of the other boys. I will mark an "X" over the one that's me. You can't see our faces so good and we are in special cloths (clothes), used for gun drill and other dirty work. Honey, we get our pictures taken every time we go on parade but this one where we are working is the first one I have seen yet. Some of them are sent to magazines and other paper all over United States. The picture on the other side in a parade. That is the way we have to dress only we carry riffles, when we march through San Pedro. Sweetheart this is the hotest place I every saw. I think we would all die if it wasn't for the wind from the ocean that blows all the time. The...

 Dear Sweetheart,  I received your letter yesterday and honey I sure was glad to hear from you. Things are different here the last few days in Camp. Some of the boys got to talking about it being more like a C.C.C. camp than a (an) Army. The Captain heard them and now we are realy (really) stepping around. We have to have our shoes shined every hour and be shaved every time we go out for drill. Our beds have to be made perfect, the floors swept and moped every morning and our cloths (clothes) in just the right place, also the windows have to be washed every other day. Outside we have to pick up sigrett (cigarette) butts and matches every morning. If anything that I have said isn't done right we will get a week K.P. (kitchen police or work). There were 64 from one of the other Batterys yesterday had to do extra duty because the (they) had dust on their beds. It's realy (really) the good old Army now.  We have been taking turns at K.P. and table waiter since I came. I have ...