04 Aug Cigs for bracelets, Nov 12 & 14, 1944
12 Nov 1944 V-MAIL
HOLLAND
GOOD EVENING, SWEETHEART—-KINDA LOW THIS EVENING. KINDA EXPECTED A LETTER TODAY, BUT STILL NO MAIL. AS ALWAYS, IT GETS TO BE A BIT OF A PAIN IN THE BAZOLA. HAVE JUST COME FROM SEEING ABOUT SIX SHORT SUBJECTS (INCLUDING SOME NEWS OF THE DAY NEWSREELS –THE FIRST I’VE SEEN OVER HERE AND A LITTLE GEM CALLED “KANSAS CITY KITTY” WITH JOAN DAVIS. A FEW FUNNY MOMENTS, BUT PRETTY MUCH ON A PAR WITH THE STINKER WE SAW HER INTHE LAST TIME WE WENT TO A MOVIE ON GOOD OL’ BWAY. REMEMBER THE ONE WHERE SHE WAS THE LEADER OF A GIRLS BAND? I THINK THAT IF THEY EVER GAVE HER A DECENT SCRIPT SHE COULD BE A VERY FUNNY GIRL, BUT CRIPES SOME OF THE CORN SHE GIVES WITH —POOEY. I’M IN THE PROCESS OF HEATING UP SOME WATER TO SHAVE WITH. THAT’S ONE DISADVANTAGE OF A HQ. YOU HAVE TO SHAVE EVERYDAY. IN THE FIELD, IT WAS OK TO JUST SHAVE EVERY OTHER DAY, BUT HERE YOU GOTTA BE FANCY. FUNNY ABOUT SUCH A BIG SET UP AS THEY HAVE HERE, AND YET (ASIDE FROM THE SHOWER HOUSE, W HICH IS LOCKED UP AT NIGHT) NO HOT WATER EXCEPT WHAT YOU HEAT ON THE LITTLE GASOLINE STOVES. ISN’T THIS AN INTERESTING LETTER THOUGH? CRIPES, BUT I’LL BE GLAD WHEN THIS BUSINESS IS OVER SO THAT I CAN TALK AND TELL YOU THINGS, AND NOT HAVE TO DEPEND ON LETTERS, AND EVEN THEY ARE RESTRICTED. AH, GUESS THIS IS JUST ONE OF MY BAD DAYS. BUT I LOVE YA (BLACKED OUT), DON’T I? AND I MISS YOU TO BEAT ALL GET OUT. SO SAY HELLO TO EVERYBODY FOR ME AND GIVE OL KAREN A BIG HUG AND KISS FROM DADDY, AND HERE’S ALL OF MY LOVE FOR YOU, MARY DARLING
ROLLIN
14 NOV 1944 V-MAIL
HOLLAND
HELLO, DARLING, HAVE JUST COME FROM SEEING “HER PRIMITIVE MAN”. FAIRLY FUNNY SHOW. TODAY I SENT YOU A TINY PACKAGE OF TWO BRACELETS. THEY AINT FANCY, BUT THEY ARE KIND OF UNIQUE. AT FIRST I THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE AN EXTREMELY GOOD DEAL, BUT ON CLOSER INSPECTION DISCOVERED THAT THE WORKMANSHIP IS PRETTY SLIPSHOD. SO IF YOU LIKE THEM, OR THINK THAT AN AMERICAN JEWELER COULD MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF THEM, TAKE THEM IN AND HAVE THEM SMOOTHED OFF AND SOLDERED LINKS PUT IN, AND A DECENT CLASP PUT ON AND YOU’LL HAVE A CUTE BRACELET, I THINK. THEY ARE MADE FROM U.S. ISSUE DUTCH “DIMES”, WITH A “QUARTER” IN THE MIDDLE. A DUTCH GULDEN (DOLLAR) IS WORTH FORTY CENTS AMERICAN. EACH GULDEN IS BROKEN UP INTO PENNIES, NICKELS, DIMES AND QUARTERS— BUT NOT SILVER, WHICH IS SCARCE. BUT U.S. DUTCH MONEY INCLUDES SILVER DIMES AND QUARTERS, SO WE ALL USE THEM FOR BRACELETS, BY TAKING THEM TO JEWELERS AND FOR TWO PACKS OF CIGS WE GET BACK A BRACELET!! IN OTHER WORDS, EACH BRACELET ACTUALLY COSTS US ABOUT SIXTY CENTS. I’M HAVING ANOTHER ONE MADE OUT OF JUST QUARTERS FOR YOU AND WILL SEND IT ON PRESENTLY. MAYBE YOU WILL LIKE TO GIVE THEM TO SOMEONE FOR XMAS, OR EVEN KEEP ONE FOR YOURSELF IF THEY COME OUT WELL.
DOGGONE IT — STILL NO MAIL. THEY TELL US IN S&S THAT BOAT LOADS OF PACKAGES ARE ON THE WAY, BUT, CRIPES, I’D BE TICKLED TO JUST GET A FEW LI’L OL’ LETTERS OR V MAILS. WELL, MAYBE TOMORROW, BUT ANYWAY I STILL LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU GUYS SOMETHING TERRIFIC.
ALL OF MY LOVE TO YOU, SWEETHEART
ROLLIE
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