Author Archives: John

We received some more clothes today and I worked on them all day long.   Joe Watters helped and being as Wellman is going to town tomorrow he will help me all day again.  We played cards again as there … Continue reading →

We received a lot of clothes last night so now today we are issuing them out and what a job it is. We played cards in the evening until about 12 o’clock.

I had been on guard so I slept all morning. I go back on at 12:45 A.M. Tried to work on my knife a little but soon gave up. We went to the show tonight at 8:14.

We had a few things to turn in to the battalion and I took them over. That was about all of the work for the day. In the evening we played nickle knock and I was on guard from 12 … Continue reading →

Breunig and I went to town today.  We decided to hike up to the little town of Erice and see what it looked like.  It was about 10 miles up on top of a mountain.  It took us from 8:30 … Continue reading →

Nothing to do today. Just messed around. I think I will go on pass tomorrow. We played cards and drank some wine before going to the show.

Worked most of the day. In the evening we went to the show,  ‘Rio Rita’. It was pretty good.  Ate a dozen eggs for supper.

I went in to mass today (same church).  Came home and played pinochle the rest of the day.  Some of the fellows went to a show the rest of us played nickle knock.  Plenty of wine. We through out two … Continue reading →