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[aid] => mick
[title] => LETTER FROM A FARM KID
[time] => 2006-07-23 14:41:45
[hometext] => Sometimes the grass is greener in the Marines Boot Camp!
[bodytext] =>  (San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Training) LETTER FROM A FARM KID Dear Ma and Pa, I'm well and hope you are. Please tell bro Walt and Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch it's a savior! Tell them to join up quick before all the places are filled. It took a while to adjust because you get to sleep in till 6 a.m. before drilled. But I'm getting so I like to sleep late. All you have to do before breakfast is smooth your cot, and shine things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix wood to split, none of those doings. Men got to shave, but it's not so bad. There's running warm water, makes you glad. Breakfast is strong on trimmings fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, but kind of weak on chops. Miss potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food that hops. Tell Walt and Elmer you can always sit by two city boys who live on coffee Their food plus yours hold you 'til noon comfy and cheaply. It's no wonder city boys can't march much. A route march is about as far as to our mailbox at home easy touch. City boys get tired and their feet get sore, So they load us all up in trucks, what a bore! The country is nice but awful flat. Sergeant is like our school teacher used to be......screeches like a bobcat. Our captain is like the school board, and Majors and Colonels just ride around frowns they don't hoard! They don't bother you none.... This next will kill Walt and Elmer with laughing for this action. I keep getting medals for shooting. I can't figure it our either? The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk head and don't move like an anchor, It's easy it ain't shooting at you like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable, no movin' n'er roam. You don't even load your own cartridges 'cause they come in boxes. Then there's the hand-to-hand combat like wrestling wiry foxes. Not as fast though, those city boys are pretty slow. You have to be real careful though they break real easy! It's not like wrestling with the ole bull back home daily, I'm 'bout the best they got in this Except for Jug Jordan from over at Silver Lake, he I can't dismiss I've only beat him once, he joined up the same time as me. I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds and He's 6' 8" and near 300 pounds dry and kinda blocky Be sure and tell Walt and Elmer to hurry and join up Before all our neighbors hear about this setup and showup! Then the stampede would be even bigger!  Your loving daughter, Carol ****************************** This was sent to me in an email I just couldn't resist! The poem is mine.  Lovingcritters July 22, 2006 *Homesick Smiles* [comments] => 5 [counter] => 509 [topic] => 54 [informant] => lovingcritters [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => happypoetry )
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