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takes about 32 days ^ before it will make Frisco
Then again they may
take and put some of us on the Brooklyn
that is the flag ship of
the Asiatic Fleet.

Over here the reports
are that the war is over.
If it was not for that
we would be on our way
back as we have had
our target practice all-
ready. All ready they
have split up some of
our crews and put them
on this ship which is
a small gun boat, as
seamen that means
scrub deck and every thing
else. I f some of us
get on the Brooklyn
it will mean the same