Trip back to training camp after leave
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BRYANT LITH CO ATLANTA [top right corner]
[lithograph print of the Piedmont Hotel] Piedmont Hotel
450 ROOMS 450 Baths
Atlanta
silly! isn’t it?
↑ 8:30 airline time
↓ 9:30 Atlanta time
My dearest,
This has been a pretty tedious
day—my main hope about it
all is that you received my Chicago
tourgram & my Atlanta tourgram.
Im a wee way I fear that the
Atlanta operator might have “snafued”
this last Atlanta Telegram a bit. [Guess
the secret reason I fear the Atlanta one is that
I “quietly” told you I was at the Piedmont & thot that
you might splurge money to let me know you
were fine & that Thumper[1] was thumping even
harder — anyhooo, its silly of me to expect
you to spend unnecessary money. But — I love
you so it would seem awfully awfully nice to
read 10 words about you.][2]
I see that my 6th word above is
“tedious” — yup! kinda sorta so.
Aside from 1 ½ hrs late into Chicago (after
2 hours late out of Bis[marck]) it was revealed that
7 days ago Eastern Airlines changed their
schedule. This meant there was no
[2]
E.A.L. plane out at all at 9:10 AM as Bis.
thought their was, & instead it was an
11:30 AM flight. All this is fine (in view
of 1 ½ hrs late into Chicago) BUT it eventuates
in missing the Delta Airlines flight
from there to Columbia. Thus we must
wait until 8:00 A.M. tomorrow to fly out
of here for the last 1 hr & 23 minutes of
traveling. All this airplane stuff c̅[3] its
uncertainties, [illegible deletion] & shiftings is
a wee bit tedious but the main
tediousness was how I felt physically
from Chicago to Atlanta. Now, dont laugh
dear, I was not really air sick (nausea)
but certainly had one Hell-of-a malaise.
From Bis to Chicago I felt just swell
& there were as many bumps in the
sky as out of Chicago but for some
reason I began to feel like Hell all over.
Three service men on the plain actually
were nauseated & vomited, but mine
was different — just rotten all over.
The stewardess revealed that we were
flying into some bizzare type of cold
wave onthrust & thus “air-physiology”
was appreciably altered. I dunno! —
guess over & above any “air-physiology,” I
was affected by just poor food, poor sleep,
etc prior to getting on any plane.
[3]
BRYANT LITH CO ATLANTA [top right corner]
[lithograph print of the Piedmont Hotel] Piedmont Hotel
450 ROOMS 450 Baths
Atlanta
However, I feel fine now after a decent
meal; assurance of reservation; & some
physical quietness. P.S. Also being able to
let you know I am successfully & safely thus
far in a “quietness” in itself. Guess I just
absolutely needed some quietness in my
physiology all these past days. I was certainly
“physiologically-foolish” to work the way I
did in Bismark those last 14 hours —
but I figured it was the last chance for awhile
that I would have to work for you & Thump.
Sooo, dearest, I love you very very
much & I’m sure I’ll dream of you
so nicely (& c̅ quietness) tonight.
All my love,
Dave
P.S. In Chicago at the ticket window I ran into
Capt Schultz, am on MD into the 116th Evac 2 days
after I was arrived. He is a very Christian
fellow of the older (38-40?) type from 12 yrs of
Minneapolis Practice. We are rooming together.
[HAD TO IN THIS CROWDED TOWN][4].
[1] Nickname for their infant son, Terry.
[2] Bracketed text is part of original.
[3] Medical abbreviation meaning “with.”
[4] Bracketed text written along right-hand margin in original.