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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1942
1942-03-12: Page 06
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Everything else has lost some of it's excellency thru drying out, but toll house cookies are just about as good anyway. Just a suggestion - any thing you ever send along will be gratefully received. Have I yet thanked you for the hershey bars & icebox cookies? They were very good. If I am not mistaken there is a plan now under consideration, in fact just about ready to go into effect, which will keep all prospective aviators at the "E" bases for 3 months. They intend to give them acrobatics and all that sort of thing right there instead of waiting till they get clear down here. That means that Ben will probably spend 3 months at Ia City, & 3 months at K.C. Man, could I have had a big time if that had been my setup. My experience in the service has been brief, but already I know that once I get back to civilian life I shall have a much greater appreciation for so many things that I used to take for granted. And one will be the opportunity to sleep late once in awhile. You should hear that reveille bell. It is right above my door and it is loud enough to wake the town residents of Pensacola. So help me, I have a fuller understanding & appreciation of Irving Berlin's hit during the last war - the one that goes "someday I'll murder the bugler & never get up, etc." And speaking of the last war, me thinks it was a tea party compared to what this one is apt to be. And brother if it ends in the near future it will be some surprise. Please don't feel that I am having a hard "'go" of it, or that I am souring on the world. Far from it - just want to get some of these things off my chest. And don't think you have to be bolstering my courage, etc, all the time. I do thank you, of course, but I want to hear of the happy carefree things you all are doing. It gives me happiness to picture it all out as I know it must be. Tell George I shall be writing him one of these days. Much love to all, Yours, Nile Things go well
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Everything else has lost some of it's excellency thru drying out, but toll house cookies are just about as good anyway. Just a suggestion - any thing you ever send along will be gratefully received. Have I yet thanked you for the hershey bars & icebox cookies? They were very good. If I am not mistaken there is a plan now under consideration, in fact just about ready to go into effect, which will keep all prospective aviators at the "E" bases for 3 months. They intend to give them acrobatics and all that sort of thing right there instead of waiting till they get clear down here. That means that Ben will probably spend 3 months at Ia City, & 3 months at K.C. Man, could I have had a big time if that had been my setup. My experience in the service has been brief, but already I know that once I get back to civilian life I shall have a much greater appreciation for so many things that I used to take for granted. And one will be the opportunity to sleep late once in awhile. You should hear that reveille bell. It is right above my door and it is loud enough to wake the town residents of Pensacola. So help me, I have a fuller understanding & appreciation of Irving Berlin's hit during the last war - the one that goes "someday I'll murder the bugler & never get up, etc." And speaking of the last war, me thinks it was a tea party compared to what this one is apt to be. And brother if it ends in the near future it will be some surprise. Please don't feel that I am having a hard "'go" of it, or that I am souring on the world. Far from it - just want to get some of these things off my chest. And don't think you have to be bolstering my courage, etc, all the time. I do thank you, of course, but I want to hear of the happy carefree things you all are doing. It gives me happiness to picture it all out as I know it must be. Tell George I shall be writing him one of these days. Much love to all, Yours, Nile Things go well
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